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This text brings together 15 essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught. Each essay focuses on a different aspect, from contracts to questions of race and gender, law and economics, critical race theory, gay legal studies and postmodernism.

Deals with specific uses of historical data and analysis to illuminate American behavior patterns. It demonstrates how the study of the past can be used to understand current behaviors in the United States. Contributors discuss not only specific behavioral patterns but also discuss how to consider and interpret them as vital historical sources.

This work argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss.

Bringing together scholars and makers of queer theater into direct dialogue, this volume explores such subjects as same-sex desire in Restoration comedy, the racialized impact of colonial Shakespeare, the cuerpo politizado of a performance artist in contemporary Los Angeles, and the nitty-gritty of getting a queer show presented in Peoria.

An exploration of Jewish identities, contesting conventional approaches. The contributors argue that Jewish identity should be conceptualized as an ongoing dynamic process of "becoming" in response to changing cultural and social conditions rather than as a stable defining body of traits.

This anthology brings together American writings in diverse languages from Arabic and Spanish to Swedish and Yiddish, among others. Presenting each work in its original language wih facing page translation, the book provides a complement to all other anthologies of American writing.

This text brings together original work to present an introductory overview of Sephardic history and culture over the past 1500 years. The book presents an overarching chronological and thematic survey of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry

Interviews with leading cultural critics including: K. Anthony Appiah, Lauren Berlant, Cathy Davidson, Morris Dickstein, Stanley Fish, Barbara Foley, Nancy Fraser, Gerald Graff, Alice Kaplan, E. Ann Kaplan, Robin Kelley, Paul Lauter, Louis Menand, Richard Ohmann, Andrew Ross, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, Marianna Torgovnick, and Alan Wald.

This contribution to feminist theory addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community and equality. Weiss also examines how Rousseau's political strategies give rise to a range of important questions regarding families, citizens and communities.

Presenting information and advice for New York City residents over the age of 60, this book encompasses a wide range of topics, from entertainment to travel discounts, health-care, housing, taxes and negotiating home care.

History of women's soroties - originally called fraternities - and how that shapes women's experiences in college.

This work profiles debates about the role of qualitative and participatory methods in psychology, a discipline which has previously seen itself as a positivistic science. It focuses on 10 exemplars of research which describe the rationale for and process of using such models.

Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the contributors to this volume explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. They suggest how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies.

Invoking Nietzsche's drastic critique of genius, this book assesses the less programmatic and more anxious cases of Pater, Valery and Freud on the role of Leonardo da Vinci. Whereas Nietzsche sought for and found an escape from romantic humanism, the others could not relinquish the idea of genius.

An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.

Passing for what you are not - whether assuming another sexual, racial or religious identity - is behaviour which trades on secrecy and revelation. This book analyzes the destructive impact of passing on the ingrained classifications and social demarcations of identity within Western society.

The author's rejected doctoral thesis hypothesis that the black middle class has a weaker racial identity than other blacks, and hence, are more politically conservative stimulated this study. From her interviews of college students at three historically black and three majority-white institutions,

In this volume, an international group of scholars, from fields such as religious studies, sociology, political science, history and anthropology explores diverse dimensions of religious fundamentalism and relates it to a range of cultural and political issues. The main focus is on Judaism.

First published in 1985, the revised edition of this text consists of seven chapters describing the muscle, its anatomy, its mechanics, and its chemical and neuro-control systems. It documents empirical, analytical, and experimental analyses and equations in the field of muscle mechanics.

Indentation and Other Stories is a collection of nine stories ranging from the wildly funny and idiosyncratic to the downright bizarre. The title story features a pathological dentist who seeks a quirky catharsis by decorating his apartment in hygienic dental paraphernalia. Other tales frolic through the lives of characters who border on the delightfully absurd: a woman, after going through menopause, struggles to recreate her menstrual periods by altering her diet; a former New York street reporter, fired because of his "ideals," aspires to become a credible street person and decides, tentatively, to have a religious experience; an English major turned psychologist writes a pseudoscientific "article"—complete with footnotes and a University of New Jersey cover letter—which argues, by example, for the use of figurative language in scientific journal writing. Other stories are more humanizing: "The Perils of Asthma" is a sympathetic lok at a twelve-year-old boy struggling to grow up amidst his perplexing asthma, his eccentric Catholic parents, and his mystifying quasi-erections. All of the stories are grounded in the allure of language, the luxuriance of detail, and the celebration of human compulsion and obsession.

Looks at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas in the Americas. From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the popularity of black/Asian "buddy films" like "Rush Hour", this work talks about the shifting meaning of race in America in the twenty-first century.

Most widely known for its adherents chanting "Hare Krishna" and distributing religious literature on the streets of American cities, the Hare Krishna movement was founded in New York City in 1965. This work explores dramatic changes in this religious movement over the course of two generations from its founding.

Scholars and clinicians from six different countries examine the legacy of one of Freud's disciples and discuss his place in the history of psychoanalysis. In sections on contexts and continuities, disciple and dissident, and theory and technique, they explore the founding of the Budapest school, h

Following Freud's lead, Rudnytsky and Spitz approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytical, or "forbidden", knowledge. This collection of essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition, from the Hebrew Bible to Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

This text demonstrates how self-analysis can be a useful psychoanalytic approach to literary theory. It explores how the psyche affects intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.

This work shows the role that religion and myth have played in the creation of the categories of "race" and "ethnicity". It introduces readers to the social construction of race and ethnicity and the ways in which these concepts are shaped by religious narratives.

Provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of global television, combining previously published essays by pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in the field.

Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic sexual images are usually attributed either to homosexual or heterosexual desire while bisexual readings remain unexplored. The essays found in RePresenting Bisexualities discuss fluid sexualities through a variety of readings from the fence, covering texts from Emily Dickinson to Nine Inch Nails. Each author contributes to the collection a unique view of sexual fluidity and transgressive desire. Taken together, these essays provide the most comprehensive bisexual theory reader to date.