Vanderbilt University Press: 94 books
Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking,...
Chomsky's Challenge to American Power
A Guide for the Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual...
So Far Away
A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the date on which to end her life. And her next step was to tell her daughter all about it....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often...
From Day to Day
One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps—Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three and a half years, Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-thin pages later smuggled...
Opting for Elsewhere
Lifestyle Migration in the American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
"Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?" This is the central question of Opting for Elsewhere, as the reader encounters stories of people who chose relocation as a way of redefining themselves and reordering work, family, and personal priorities. This...
Regulating Romance
Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people's heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda. In chapters entitled "Unbreak my heart,"...
The Federalist Society
How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen,...
Fighting for Their Lives
Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory...
Identity and the Second Generation
How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation....
Ethics of Life
Contemporary Iberian Debates
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The contributors ask the following questions:
• What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
• How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization...
Practically Invisible
Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twenty-first century with a choice: embrace a booming tourist industry eager to experience a preconceived notion of indigeneity, or risk losing a battle against the encroaching forces...
by George Michael
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb in downtown Oslo, Norway. He didn't stop there, traveling several hours from the city to ambush a youth camp while the rest of Norway was distracted by his earlier attack. That's where the facts end. But what motivated him? Did he have...
No Limits to Their Sway
Cartagena's Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With new leadership...