Nyu Press: 1737 books
by Lisa Pace Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Recovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation’s formative years.
The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner...
Legal Intellectuals in Conversation
Reflections on the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. True to the title of the book, Hackney spent hours in conversation with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about...
Faith Born of Seduction
Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect?
The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders...
Surviving Poverty
Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor.
Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive...
The Study of Children in Religions
A Methods Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Research in religious studies has traditionally focused on adult subjects since working with children presents significantly more challenges to the researcher, such as getting the research protocol passed by the Internal Review Board, obtaining permission from parents and schools, and figuring out...
What Is Parenthood?
Contemporary Debates about the Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Extraordinary changes in patterns of family life—and family law—have dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questions and debates. What is parenthood and why does it matter? How should society define, regulate, and support it? Is parenthood separable from marriage—or...
Making Media Work
Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The management and labor culture of the entertainment industry.
In popular culture, management in the media industry is
frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and
market researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces of
creative talent and...
The Original Torah
The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Is the Torah true? Do the five books of Moses provide an accurate historical account of the people of ancient Israel’s origins?
In The Original Torah, S. David Sperling argues that, while there is no archeological evidence to support much of the activity chronicled in the Torah, a historical reality...
Laying Down the Law
Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
In the collected essays here, Schlag established himself as one of the most creative thinkers in the contemporary legal academy. To read them one after another is exhilarating; Schlag's sophistication shines through. In chapter after chapter he tackles the most vexing problems of law and legal thinking,...
Walking Where Jesus Walked
American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus’s life and death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter, and how do...
Across Generations
Immigrant Families in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Generations examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups—from...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
American immigrants are often considered symbols of hope and promise. Presidential candidates point to their immigrant roots, Ellis Island is celebrated as a national monument, and the melting pot remains a popular, if somewhat tarnished, American analogy. At the same time, images of impoverished...
First Person Political
Legislative Life and the Meaning of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
In First Person Political, Grant Reeher combats the public's alienation from and distrust of politicians by putting a personal face on everyday political life. Through moving personal interviews, Reeher allows legislators to tell their own stories about how and why they came to politics, the experience...
Biocitizenship
The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship
Citizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which...