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From fetal photography and mammography to mental retardation and chronic fatigue syndrome, this title reveals how identities are constructed in medical research and public health initiatives, as well as in popular press accounts of health.

Generating a sense of community and common purpose, this book with deliberate exclusion of women and implicit rejection of black gay men, highlights one of the central faultlines in African American politics: the role of gender and sexuality in antiracist agenda.

Surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America. This book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s.

Analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. This book examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice - from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention.

What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? This title examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study.

Exposing and imploding all of our expectations, this book shows us how menacing (and funny) the apparently ordinary can be. It pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results.

Covers a range of topics around sexual and gender identities. This title features contributors who assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. It focuses upon disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience.

Contains essays that focus on how Woolf's public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. This book includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. It provides lesbian interpretations of novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years.

As social animals, each of us can only be partly understood through insights into our individual psychodynamics. There is, within us, another principle at work: to preserve the group, even at the expense of the individual. This title constructs a necessary bridge between individual psychodynamics and group dynamics.

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. This title presents classic and contemporary papers written at the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis.

How will the changing ethnic and racial composition of American society affect the long struggle for black political power and inclusion? To what extent will these racial and ethnic shifts affect the already tenuous nature of racial politics in American society? This title deals with these questions.

Including the Supreme Court decisions, this title provides an overview of the judiciary in general and the Supreme Court in particular. It combines theory and practice of the judicial process with civil rights and liberties.

Is the new scholarship a vacuous, overpoliticized, soon-to-be-vanquished trend or the harbinger of an important new paradigm? Is reconciliation possible? This title deals with these questions.

Provides insight on the future of Japan-US relations. Presenting views of such distinguished economists as Nobel Laureate Paul A Samuelson, this volume covers such topics as Japan-US relations under the Clinton Administration, trade negotiations, international competition and investment, and recent economic and financial trends.

Explores, both seductively and horrificly, the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong. This title tells a story of a little girl who grew up the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece, secret-keeper, and object of lust.

For centuries, the law has been considered a neutral, objective arena that sets societal standards and in which conflicting forces resolve disputes. This title seeks to provide answers to what you wanted to know about the law - except what the rules are or ought to be.

A historian of emotions re-examines our modern-day pursuit of happiness

This book brings together for the first time two hundred years of reflection on the curious relation of black culture to Harvard, and Harvard's complex relation to black people.

A timely analysis of why abuses and atrocities occur, why leaders behave as they do, and how a more accountable system might be developed

The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. In this text Randy McBee demonstrates that working women took advantage of their time in dance halls to challenge conventional gender norms.

Archaeological discovery of documents from the Near East has fuelled the debate as to the Hebrew Bible's relationship with the world. The biblical view that Israel "dwells apart" is belied by the Israelites' vulnerability to worldly attractions and cultural similarities with their neighbours.

Offers multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. This work includes essays that analyze contemporary issues facing Muslim newcomers in the wake of September 11, 2001.

Presenting the Holocaust restitution movement from the viewpoints of the various parties involved in the campaigns and settlements, this volume brings together the central players in the Holocaust restitution movement, both pro and con. This work enjoys the benefits of hindsight to provide a definitive assessment of the movement.

Envisions a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage.

Both the courts and the public seem confused about sexual harassment - what it is, how it functions, and what sorts of behaviors are actionable in court. Theresa M. Beiner contrasts perspectives from social scientists on the realities of workplace sexual harassment with the current legal standard.

The affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was a huge media story. This book provides a forum for assessing the cultural, political and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair.

This anthology seeks to bridge the gaps between feminist and anti racist theories and practices. The essays deal with racial and gender inequality around the globe, tackling such issues as political and environmental racism, imprisonment, sexual exploitation and economic inequality.