Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Passage to Manhood
Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately...
Infectious Change
Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like virus—to over a dozen international hotel guests. SARS went on to kill about 800 people and sicken 8,000 worldwide. By July 2003 the...
Seeking Modernity in China’s Name
Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity,"...
A Family of No Prominence
The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite...
A Genealogy of the Modern Self
Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same...
Between Movement and Establishment
Organizations Advocating for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politics...
Birth in the Age of AIDS
Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative...
Sharia Compliant
A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass. They did this by "hacking" Islamic law in accordance with changing times...
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy
Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates ingrained practices of racism, as well as unquestioned...
In Rome We Trust
The Rise of Catholics in American Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
On the heels of an extremely lively U.S. presidential election campaign, this book examines the unusually serene relationship between the chief global superpower and the world's most ancient and renowned institution. The "Catholicization" of the United States is a recent phenomenon: some...
Choosing Daughters
Family Change in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples...
Insufficient Funds
The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese...
by William B. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived...
Neoliberalism's Demons
On the Political Theology of Late Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing. And it has enjoyed great...