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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Through their constant television broadcasts, mass video distributions, and printed publications, African American religious broadcasters have a seemingly ubiquitous presence in popular culture. They are on par with popular entertainers and athletes in the African American community as cultural icons...
As Long as We Both Shall Love
The White Wedding in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways...
New and Improved
The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
As the Victorian era drew to a close, American culture experienced a vast transformation. In many ways, the culture changed even more rapidly and profoundly for women. The "new woman," the "new freedom," and the "sexual revolution" all referred to women moving out of...
by Catherine Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only...
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a “baby automatic,” a fur coat, and a fashionable...
The Health of Newcomers
Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Immigration and health care are hotly debated and contentious issues. Policies that relate to both issues—to the health of newcomers—often reflect misimpressions about immigrants, and their impact on health care systems. Despite the fact that immigrants are typically younger and healthier than...
Tomorrow's Parties
Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award
Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award
In nineteenth-century America—before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality—what were the parameters...
A Troubled Marriage
Domestic Violence and the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013
The development of a legal regime to combat domestic violence in the United States has been lauded as one of the feminist movement’s greatest triumphs. But, Leigh Goodmark argues, the resulting system is deeply flawed in ways that prevent...
The Man Question
Male Subordination and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, feminist legal theory tends to view men through an essentialist...
Celebrity
A History of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century
Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation...
Hair Matters
Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Long hair in the 60s, Afros in the early 70s, bobs in the 80s, fuschia in the 90s. Hair is one of the first attributes to catch our eye, not only because it reflects perceptions of attractiveness or unattractiveness, but also because it conveys important political, cultural, and social meanings, particularly...
The End Of Cinema As We Know It
American Film in the Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering aboutthis prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films, some of which are not exactly "films"...
A Distant Heritage
The Growth of Free Speech in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies—such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry...
The Harp and the Eagle
Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; military, church, and diplomatic records; and community newspapers, Susannah Ural Bruce significantly...