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A study of race, class and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue the existence of a literary device termed as """"Sapphic Primitivism"""", this text exposes the ways several classes of identification were intertwined with the development of gay identities at the start of the 20th century.

India's 1997 celebration of the Golden Jubilee marked 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. This anniversary is the impetus for this exploration of the English language icons of South Asian post-colonial literature such as: Salman Rushdie, Vikram Chandra and Amitav Ghosh.

Writing about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they shape their social identities. She explores their ideas about gender, family, adult-child interactions, and Protestant/Catholic tensions.

Tells the history of superconductivity, providing a perspective on the development of the field and its relationship with the rest of physics and the history of our time. The authors provide a rare look at the scientists and their research, mostly little known beyond a small coterie of specialists.

A vast archive of photographs of the American West chronicled American expansion and the subordination of many Native peoples. This volume tells the stories of four unconventional women photographers and their subjects, providing the reader with insights into a network of complex relationships.

Argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. It examines how nationalists, officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and the colonis defined and redefined the relationship between the political and religious.

Maps say as much about us as about the landscape. This text looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. It follows the history of cartography from the establishment of the prime meridian to computer mapping.

A guide to discovering the best teachers at your school or college and learning everything you can from them. Case studies provide real-life examples of how to put ideas into practice as the authors show how to evaluate professors, what to look for in a syllabus and what resources to check.

These novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".

Despite media reporting, annual reports from the Surgeon General show Americans are the healthiest people on the planet. This volume aims to set the record straight and conteract the culture of complaint and worry with an unbiased account of the scientific facts.

Could the length of your fingers predict a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? The author posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) provides a window into fertility- and sex-related traits.

This work is a historical account of the production, distribution, and consumption of pornography in Great Britain from the early 19th century to the turn of the 20th century.

Written from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection are divided into four sections: the causes of wrongful convictions; the social characteristics of the wrongfully convicted; case studies and personal histories; and suggestions for change in the criminal justice system.

An examination of the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on more than 30 novels, Paxton shows how the treatment of rape reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.

In this collection of essays, artists, museum directors, and scholars of anthropology, law, art history, cultural studies and political science, discuss cultural appropriation and its implications. Over six sections from music to science, the relationship between culture and power is examined.

This narrative interrogates the notion of the fifties as an era of normalcy. Ellwood explores the Catholic-Protestant tensions, the conflict between theology and popular faith, and the underground forms of religiosity, and argues that the decade was actually full of spiritual strife.

Dismayed by the media's tendency to reduce the feminist enterprise to labels and superstars, Donna Perry and Nan Bauer Maglin decided to find out what a diverse group of feminists think about women, sex, and power in the nineties. The result is a provocative and varied collection of twenty-four essays.

Two American Studies professors from Rutgers University here show how the New Jersey Turnpike--that "ugly icon,'' America's "widest and most traveled'' road--has found its way into the minds, if not the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. In poet Allen Ginsberg, singer Bruce Springsteen, commuters and roadside home owners lulled to sleep by its drone of traffic, this 12-lane asphalt monster has inspired powerful reactions, from admiration to anger.

Nameless Diseases is compelling reading for anyone who has ever suffered from a medical mystery or seeks to understand the limitations of medical progress. The book includes a list of organizations devoted to education the public about commonly overlooked, unrecognized, rare, or misdiagnosed diseases.

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him - with the child - for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature.

Tells the story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The book describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. In presenting the lore and heritage of the Lenapes, Dr. M.R. Harrington does so through the eyes of a shipwrecked English boy who was eventually adopted into the tribe.

This collection of essays demonstrates the usefulness of looking at cinema with the analytical methods provided by art theory. ""The Visual Turn"" is a dialogue between art historians and film theorists from the silent period to the aftermath of World War II.

A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter.

The book has the great advantage of placing the slave in the centre of the history not simply as a type of labour, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. Written with verve and grace for a general readership.

What do Christians do with the Bible? How do they - individually and collectively - interact with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? This book addresses such questions.