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Examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present. The book takes a closer look at narratives in which detectives travel the streets of LA, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption.

Investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media, from the newspapers, magazines, doctors' records and personal papers of the nineteenth-century to today's websites, Facebook groups and Instagram feeds. Bethany Johnson and Margaret Quinlan find surprising parallels between today's experts and their Victorian counterparts.

Brings together contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, all members or associates of a national racial reconciliation organization called Coming to the Table, to tell their stories of dealing with America's racial past through their experiences and their family histories.

Missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children.

Explores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research.

Gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media outlets, including documentary films, television serials, and world cinema. Along the way, it analyzes milestones in trans representation.

The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the US. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the US, and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics.

In this memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. Reflecting on both her accomplishments and challenges, she considers just how much second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.

Explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy.

Examines how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. The book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, and asks what is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take centre stage? And how do these films make room to dream of new beginnings that don't just reboot the world we know?

During the 1980s, US television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure.

Traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America's image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America's yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.

Weighs the concerns of university administrators, professors, adjuncts, and students in order to critically assess emerging faculty models and offer informed policy recommendations. Cognizant of the financial pressures that have led many universities to favour short-term faculty contracts, contributors investigate whether there are ways to modify the existing system or promote new faculty models.

Introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry - from the employees' wives who hand-coloured the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as menial workers, Erin Hill shows how their labour was essential to the industry.

Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine - a natural cure - became harder to acquire. This historical study shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II.

Essays on Literature and Culture

In this volume, scholars critique the growing body of literature on the current process broadly known as ""globalization"". The authors explore the complex geographies of modern cities and offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings.

This collection of essays looks at the history of Warner Bros. animation. It compares and contrasts the two studios, charts the rise and fall of creativity and daring, and analyzes the ways in which the studio was for a time transgressive in its treatment of class, race and gender.

A tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century onwards. This book shows how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. It explains what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived.

Part of the ""The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony"", this collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.

"If I had only one book to read on the Lindbergh case I should... choose Fisher's. It is balanced, impartial, and contains much material not to be found elsewhere." - Francis Russell, The New York Review of Books

Employing the crucial feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance and not an essential quality related to sex, Mimi Schippers explores the gender roles, assumptions and transgressions of the men and women involved in the hard rock scene.

This is an examination into the career of film director, Max Ophuls, drawing on archival documents and interviews with more than 60 of Ophuls's contemporaries. It traces the European director's struggle to find a niche in the US film industry, and shows how he bent conventional Hollywood methods.

Captures the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise US feminism. This title features seventeen essays that address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States since early nineteenth century.

Covering environmental policies, this work shows how policy considerations can be broken down according to six specific factors: the reaction of elected government officials, the reactions of the public and special interests, knowledge developed by scientists and engineers, economics, ethical imperatives, and time pressure to make a decision.

An examination of political behaviour from a modern evolutionary perspective. Paul H. Rubin discusses group or social behaviour, including: ethnic and racial conflict; altruism and co-operation; envy; political power; and the role of religion in politics.

Women''s Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women''s experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women''s lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area''s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women''s transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy.

Contains essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labour struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more.