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Explores how contemporary Southern culture has been enthusiastically engaged - produced and reproduced - in a British context. The author suggests interpretations of the history, racial politics, music and art of both Britain and the American South, as well as the dynamic flow of culture itself.

Part ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school in order to explore how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.

Adherents of the Baha'i faith view themselves as united by a universal belief that transcends national boundaries. This volume examines how this global identity is interpreted locally through the study of a Baha'i community in Atlanta, Georgia.

Before 1850, the field of medicine was closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. This book explores the lives and the work of those first medical students.

This text presents 12 cross cultural case studies, written from an anthropological perspective, focussing on the analysis of space and place. They present theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture.

Offers the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopaedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing.

In 1997, James Cameron's ""Titanic"", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made ""Titanic"" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?

A collection of 27 short stories from both known and unknown writers that interpret the Holocaust. In addition to the stories selected, it contains an introduction by the editors, putting the stories in context, plus a glossary of terms, a chronology of events and a suggested reading list.

An exploration of the influences of holistic thinking on the development of electromagnetic theory. The author highlights three alternative scientific systems that he believes shaped electromagnetic theory: medieval Chinese science, Western Renaissance occult, and the German Romantic tradition.

In this narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals a detailed picture of the American Revolution. He lets the participants - from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens - tell the story in their own words.

A study of Martin Bernal's """"Black Athena"""", which explored the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization and caused controversy among Afrocentrists and Classicists alike. It includes a discussion of Bernal's critique of the research university and a reconstruction of his """"sociology of knowledge"""".

Examining the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in the current political and cultural climate, this text draws on contemporary feminist and cultural theory. It reveals how female bodybuilders find themselves both trapped and empowered by their sport.

Focusing on the area where a heavily industrialized marsh complex meets the Hackensack River ecosystem, the author explores the history and environment of an urban wilderness. Line drawings introduce the animals and plants inhabiting it, providing an overview of an area dismissed as wasteland.

The second of six volumes, this collection of letters, speeches, diaries and articles document the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.

Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, "Seventeen Syllables" is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation with adolescent life. Between the lines, however, lurks the tragedy of her mother, who is trapped in a marriage of desperation. Tome's deep absorption in writing haiku causes a rift with her husband, which escalates to a tragic event that changes Rosie's life forever.

Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.

Drawing upon life history interviews with adults who were treated for intersexuality as children, Sharon E. Preves explores how such individuals experience and cope with being labelled sexual deviants in a society that demands sexual conformity.

Reflecting academic interests in nation, race, gender, sexuality and other axes of identity, this text gathers these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other because communities, societies and nations do not exist autonomously.

This anthology provides a selection of primary source Buddhist literature and is divided into two major parts: Theravada and Mahayana forms of Buddhism. It is an anthology of textual sources for courses in Buddhism, while also serving as a companion volume to the text The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction.

Through both critical and historical analysis, the book proposes a method of studying the framing of race in ""Star Trek"" of the 1960s and its spin offs in the 1980s and 1990s that integrates sociology, critical theory and cultural studies.

The story of the Rosenstrasse protest, when the Gestapo gave in and released two thousand Jews, who were married to protesting Germans, from a temporary collection centre in Berlin. The author uses interviews with survivors and Nazi records to reconstruct the event and examine its significance.

Explores how the mechanisms of modernism, German cinema and feminist film theory have evolved, and discusses the directions in which they are headed. The book aims to locate the debate over the place of cinema within modernity in a complex matrix of contending sensibilities, voices and impulses.

Identifying narratives of gender, race and masculinity that defined Reagan's America, this text provides demonstrations of the synergy between political history and popular culture. Films discussed include ""Home Alone"", ""Beetlejuice"", ""Working Girl"", ""Trading Places"" and ""The Little Mermaid"".

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O''Connor''s most famous and most discussed story. O''Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O''Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author''s life, the authoritative text of the story itself, comments and letters by O''Connor about the story, critical essays, and a bibliography. The critical essays span more than twenty years of commentary and suggest several approaches to the story--formalistic, thematic, deconstructionist-- all within the grasp of the undergraduate, while the introduction also points interested students toward still other resources. Useful for both beginning and advanced students, this casebook provides an in-depth introduction to one of America''s most gifted modern writers.

In 'Women Together/Women Apart', Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other.

This work on the sociology of religion begins with basic statements about human nature, and then, employing principles of logic and philosophy, builds towards complex pronouncements on societies and their religious institutions.

Includes essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined 1990s.

Covers the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and HIV/AIDS, along with data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics. This book chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history.