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University Press of Florida Pauulus Diaspora
Book SynopsisTells a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging US-centered views of Black Power, Quito Swan offers a radically broader perspective.Trade ReviewA powerful, thoroughly researched, diasporic history of Black liberation politics during most of the 20th Century. . . . A remarkable study in political evolution and tenacity." - Choice"Makes crucial contributions to a set of inter-connecting literatures that probe the breadth and depth of black internationalism. . . . Leaves us pondering how deeply this material--and technical--history might shift our understandings of the routes of black internationalism and the registers of black power." - Journal of Social History
£23.95
University Press of Florida Unveiling Pachacamac New Hypotheses for an Old
Book SynopsisThe sacred Andean site of Pachacamac has an enduring presence in Peruvian history and plays a pivotal role in the formation of current views about religion and thought in the pre-Hispanic period. This is the first volume to synthesize the past quarter century’s abundance of new data and hypotheses on this important sanctuary.
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University Press of Florida Joyce without Borders Circulations Sciences
Book SynopsisAddresses Joyce’s borderlessness and the ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. It positions borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joycean poiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work.Trade Review“A solid volume of ambitious and innovative scholarship that breaks down the geopolitical, philosophical, methodological, historical, disciplinary, and moral boundaries of traditional Joycean scholarship. It invites readers to consider unusual and compelling approaches by delving into transatlantic readerly relationships, parasitology, posthumanism, algorithmic writing, cartoons, comics, game theory, pornography, and more. A must read.”—Brian Price, coeditor of TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature
£71.00
University Press of Florida The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill
Book SynopsisCollected for the first time, the foundational contributions of a scholar and activist who shaped the study of Garveyism and pan-Africanism. This volume brings together Robert A. Hill’s most important writings for the first time, highlighting his intellectual contributions to the history of pan-Africanism.
£88.40
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Pilobolus A Story of Dance and Life
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University Press of Florida An Introduction to Jean Bodel
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Black Citizens and American Democracy Fighting
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Archaeology Heritage and Reactionary Populism
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John Wiley & Sons The Usual Star and The Moment Stories
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University Press of Florida Circulating Culture Transnational Cuban Networks
Book SynopsisTracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities in a transnational setting.
£26.06
University Press of Florida Lacand243n Maya in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisDrawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandon Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandon communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism.
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University Press of Florida Dogs
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Missions to the Calusa
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt Kinderlou
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Global Garveyism
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Sugar Baron Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of PreCastro Cuba
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John Wiley & Sons Motion Picture Paradise
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John Wiley & Sons The Kite and the Snail An Endangered Bird Its Unlikely Prey and a Story of Hope in a Changing World
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Old Mine Road
Book SynopsisThe Old Mine Road, considered the first road in America designed for wheeled vehicles, was built three hundred years ago by Dutch settlers for access to the mines of the Minisink country. Many changes have taken place in these regions since C.G. Hine recorded his observations and printed The Old Mine Road in 1908. This new printing is a facsimile of that first 1908 edition.
£24.29
MW - Rutgers University Press The Iroquois Trail Dickon among the Onondagas and Senecas
Book SynopsisThousands of schoolchildren have read the adventures of Dickon, the English boy who was rescued from a shipwreck by the Lenape Indians, told in The Indians of New Jersey by M.R. Harrington. Now they and others can follow Dickon's further adventures in The Iroquois Trail.Trade ReviewThis exciting adventure story incorporates [Harrington's] vast knowledge of Indian life, lore, and crafts. * New Jersey Education Association Review *Young readers are sure to enjoy the fascinating illustrations. * The Home News *Table of ContentsJamestown and Pocahontas Turtle-Town and White-Deer The Girl with Short Hair Many-Tongues and the Iroquois Trail I Play Doctor A Goblin Enemy A Messenger of Shame Gathering Clouds I Defy Tadoda'ho Masked Healers The Lost Is Found The Great Chief's Revenge Iroquois Language
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground 17751783
Book SynopsisAdrian Leiby offers an exciting narrative of the people of Dutch New Jersey and New York during this conflict. Historians will find colorful details about the Revolutionary War, and genealogists will find much previously unpublished material on hundreds of men and women of Dutch New Jersey and New York in the 1700s.
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John Wiley & Sons American Evangelicalism Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity
Book Synopsis.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Part One. Theoretical Considerations 1. Definitions and Perspectives 2. Religion and Modernity: A Sociology-of-Knowledge Approach Part Two. Social and Historical Background 3. History of a World View, 1890 to the Present 4. A Demographic Profile 5. Beliefs and Practices Part Three. The Dynamics of Cognitive Bargaining 6. Accommodation: The Domestication of Belief 7. Resistances: Public Piety and Politization 8. Legitimation: The Problem of Projection Part Four. Conclusions 9. The Ambivalence of Orthodoxy in Contemporary America Appendixes 1. Operationalizing Evangelicalism 2. Methodological Strategies Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Honor and the American Dream Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community
Book SynopsisThirty-second Street in Chicago. A Chicano community, peaceful on a warm summer night, residents socializing, children playing - and gang warfare ready to explode at any time. Ruth Horowitz takes us to the heart of this world.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Culture and Inner-City Neighborhoods 3. Marginality and the American Dream 4. The Expanded Family and Family Honor 5. Young Men in the Streets: Honor and Reputation 6. Femininity and Womanhood: Virginity, Unwed 7. Education and School Authority 8. Earning a Living 9. Adult Juvenile Gang Membership 10. The Consequences of Being Different 11. Community Culture and Locally Rooted Identities Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Jersey Genesis The Story of the Mullica River
Table of ContentsForeword Foreword to 1963 Printing 1 Fisherman's Luck 2 Roundabout Islands 3 Bishop's Breed 4 Cure for an Old Age 5 Roads Under Water 6 Leeds of Leeds 7 Leeks in Lower Bank 8 Over Turtle Creek 9 Captain's House 10 Meadow Musk 11 Green Bank 12 One Corpse to Another 13 Pillar of Society 14 Snappers and Greentails 15 "As Dying-" 16 The Adventure of Aserdaten 17 Rolling Stones Gather 18 The Forum 19 Names and Big Gun 20 Toward the Port 21 Port of the Republic 22 The Jersey Devil 23 Santa Claus for the Lower Bank 24 Farewell to Lower Bank 25 The Forks 26 Headwaters Bibliography A Note on the Author Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Touch of Evil Orson Welles Director
Book SynopsisThis book about "Touch of Evil" includes the continuity script, a biography of Orson Welles, an interview with Welles by Andre Bazih, an interview with Charlton Heston, excerpts from several critical essays, major reviews, a filmography and a bibliography. Trade ReviewConsidered by many critics to be one of Welles's great works, the film gets a superb review in this first-rate anthology... Recommended. * Film Study *This is a welcome addition to the growing collection of scripts of film classics, one to put on the shelf next to Welles's Citizen Kane... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntrod. Welles's labyrinths : an introduction to Touch of Evil / Terry Comito. Orson Welles : a biographical sketch Touch of evil. Credits and cast. The continuity script. The shooting script(3) : the evolution of Orson Welles's touch of evil from novel to film / John Stubbs Interviews, reviews, and commentaries
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MW - Rutgers University Press American Mainline Religion Its Changing Shape and Future
Book SynopsisProvides a new “mapping” of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. The authors document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Legacy of the Sixties 2. The New Voluntarism 3. The Fragmented Mainline 4. The Social Sources of Denominationalism Revisited 5. The Demography of Religious Change 6. Mainline Morality 7. The Future of the Mainline Appendix: The General Social Survey and the Religious Groupings Notes Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Social History of Economic Decline Business Politics and Work in Trenton
Book SynopsisBusiness, Politics, and Work in Trenton (Class & Culture)Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Golden Era: Civic Capitalism 3. Labor and Community 4. Politics: Struggle and Reform 5. Tarnishing of Gold 6. Civic Capitalism to Nationalism Capitalism: 1920-1930 7. Depression, War, and Recovery: 1929-1949 8. Changing Work and Changing Workers 9. Grasping for Solutions 10. Trenton as America Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel director
Book SynopsisInvasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, is a low-budget science fiction film that has become a classic. In the film, the aliens - who look just like earthlings - replace people by growing as their doubles from womb-like pods. The book examines various interpretations of the film.
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers
Book SynopsisChronicles the black student protest movement at Rutgers University, from the 1960s to today. Richard P. McCormick examines the forces that produced the protest movement, the tactics that were employed, and the qualified gains that were achieved.Trade ReviewThis account of the black student protest at Rutgers is informative, insightful, and important. It identifies some of the social, political, and emotional forces that shaped the form and substance of the struggle of my generation of African American students and the response of university administrators and faculties. The message is clear and correctùthe changes realized by that movement were necessary, dramatic, and, to a degree, revolutionary, but not sufficient. More change is needed to confront the ongoing challenges of inequality. -- Karen Predow-James Ph.D. * former chair of the Douglass Black Student Committee *Table of ContentsChapter 1: introduction Chapter 2: stirrings of change Chapter 3: a new urgency Chapter 4: the breaking point Chapter 5: "a new and pioneering program" Chapter 6: the educational opportunity fund Chapter 7: postscript
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John Wiley & Sons The Juggler Rachilde
Trade Review"The Juggler" is an unjustly neglected work. Gracefully poised between decadence and dada, it combines the sensuousness, love of the artificial and sexual ambiguity of Huysman with the word play, subversion and dramatic irony of (Rachilde's friend) Alfred Jarry. The story of the relationship between the "juggler" of the title (in fact a well to do widow), Eliante Donalger, and her younger, somewhat callow suitor, the medical student Leon Reille, the novel alternates between their dramatic exchanges and their equally dramatic letters. The gender reversal and strong female character are reminiscent of Rachilde's more famous work, the scandalous "Monsieur Venus," but "The Juggler" is more nuanced, sure footed and mature, while being just as scandalous. It's a sexy book, even though there's nothing explicit in it, mostly through the author's attention to the minutest of sensations and her appreciation of the elastic wonders of the female body. Eliante's defiantly outsider pose and her suggestion of the artificiality of gender itself make reading "The Juggler" a strangely contemporary and immediate experience, and I must admit I savored every word. -- James Agnew * Amazon *"The Juggler" is an unjustly neglected work. Gracefully poised between decadence and dada, it combines the sensuousness, love of the artificial and sexual ambiguity of Huysman with the word play, subversion and dramatic irony of (Rachilde's friend) Alfred Jarry. The story of the relationship between the "juggler" of the title (in fact a well to do widow), Eliante Donalger, and her younger, somewhat callow suitor, the medical student Leon Reille, the novel alternates between their dramatic exchanges and their equally dramatic letters. The gender reversal and strong female character are reminiscent of Rachilde's more famous work, the scandalous "Monsieur Venus," but "The Juggler" is more nuanced, sure footed and mature, while being just as scandalous. It's a sexy book, even though there's nothing explicit in it, mostly through the author's attention to the minutest of sensations and her appreciation of the elastic wonders of the female body. Eliante's defiantly outsider pose and her suggestion of the artificiality of gender itself make reading "The Juggler" a strangely contemporary and immediate experience, and I must admit I savored every word. -- James Agnew * Amazon *
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso Culture and History in the Upper Amazon
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to Rucuyaya Alonso, an elderly Quichua Indian of the Upper Ecuadorean Amazon. Alonso is a hunter, but like most Quichuas, he has done other work as well, bearing loads, panning gold, tapping rubber trees, and working for Shell Oil. He tells of his work, his hunting, his marriage, his fights, his fears, and his dreams.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest Travelers 2. Ethnicity, Language, Culture 3. Family and Youth 4. The Forest and the River 5. The State, Missionaries, and Native Consciousness, 1767-1896 6. Christianity and the Missions 7. Liberalism and Rubber: The Early Twentieth Century in the Oriente 8. The Days of the Varas, the Apu, and the Patrons 9. The Company and the Auca 10. Gold, Oil, and Cattle: The Twentieth Century in Tena-Archidona 11. My Friends the Yachaj 12. Dreams and Death Reflections 14. The Cultural Bases of Resistance Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Glossary References Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Time and the Town A Provincetown Chronicle
Table of ContentsForeword Part I. Age of Innocence [1907-1911] Part II. The Onion [1912-1916] Part III. Wartime [1917-1921] Part IV. Days of the Locust [1922-1926] Part V. Depression [1927-1931] Part VI. New Deal [1932-1936] Part VII. A World Ends [1937-1941]
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John Wiley & Sons Cape May County New Jersey The Making of an American Resort Community
Table of ContentsForeword Preface Glossary of Place Names Chapters 1. Founding a Community of Whaler Yeomen, 1609-1699 2. Whaler Yeoman Ascendancy, 1700-1765 3. Revolution and the New Nation, 1764-1800 4. Cape Island and Dennus Creek, 1801-1849 5. The Railroad and the Civil War, 1850-1878 6. Settlement of the Barrier Islands, 1879-1900 7. Progress and World War, 1901-1919 8. Prohibition, Depression, and the New Deal, 1920-1938 9. A Wartime and Postwar Resort Community, 1939-1961 10. A Resort Community in Transition, 1962-1992 Appendix A. The Thirty-Five Whaler Yeoman Families Appendix B. Intermarriage among the Whaler Yeoman Families, 1700-1799 Appendix C. Manumissions of Slaves, 1802-1834 Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Photographs follow Chapter 5 Maps, pages 22, 67, 124, 220
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MW - Rutgers University Press Jerseyana The Underside of New Jersey History
Book SynopsisReaders of the New Jersey section of the Sunday New York Times eagerly look forward to Marc Mappen's astonishing tales of New Jersey history. Jerseyana is his first collection of these popular monthly columns. Together the fifty-four columns in this book constitute a sweeping survey of New Jersey's rich heritage.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface From Prehistory to 1799 Nineteenth Century Twentieth Century Suggestions for Further Reading Index
£18.74
MW - Rutgers University Press Shoot the Piano Player Francois Truffaut Director
Book SynopsisWhen it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Peter Brunette's introduction to this book gives us new insight into the film, based in part on revisualizing it in terms of recent postmodern and poststructuralist thinking.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Shoot the Piano Player as a postmodernist text / Peter Brunette Fraṅois Truffaut : A Biographical Sketch Shoot the Piano Player - Credits and cast The continuity script Notes on the continuity script Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries - Interviews : Interview with Fraṅois Truffaut / Ȟl̈ne Laroche Davis I wanted to treat Shoot the Piano Player like a tale by Perrault : An interview with Fraṅois Truffaut / Yvonne Baby Adapting Shooting the Piano Player / Fraṅois Truffaut Should films be politically committed? / Fraṅois Truffaut From an interview with Fraṅois Truffaut Reviews : Ciňma 60 / Alain Vargas Ciňma 61 / Marcel Martin The New Yorker / Edith Oliver Variety / "Mosk" Sight and Sound / Peter John Dyer Film Culture / Pauline Kael The Village Voice / Andrew Sarris The New York Times / Bosley Crowther Esquire / Dwight Macdonald Commentaries : Cinema of appearance / Gabriel Pearson and Eric Rhode "Are women magic?" / Annette Insdorf The existential play in Truffaut's early films / Allen Thiher Truffaut, Godard, and the genre film as self-conscious art / Leo Braudy The statement of genres / James Monaco Tirez sur le Pianiste / C.G. Crisp Tirez sur le Pianiste / Don Allen The sensitive spot / Jean-Paul Ṯṟk On Shoot the Piano Player / Graham Petrie Through the looking glass / Roger Greenspun The technique of Shoot the Piano Player / Karel Reisz and Gavin Miller Filmography and Bibliography - Truffaut Filmography, 1954-1983 Selected Bibliography
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MW - Rutgers University Press Mexican Workers and the American Dream Immigration Repatriation and California Farm Labor 19001939
Book SynopsisIn the first forty years of the twentieth century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the US, attracted by farm work in California. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the 1930s repatriation program - one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the US government.Trade ReviewBased on exhaustive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, this study offers a richly textured history of Mexican immigrants in rural California. A work of exceptional breadth, especially with regard to repatriation, [it] is a pivotal contribution to Chicano historiography and immigration studies. -- Vicki L. Ruiz * Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor in the Humanities, The Claremont Gradua *Guerin-Gonzales's special contribution is the link she explores between immigrant experience and the American dream. The towering irony her fine book reveals is how an ideology of promise for others was for the Mexican migrants the justification for their exploitation and, when the Great Drepression struck, for expelling many of them from the country. -- David Brody * University of California, Davis *A valuable study of an essential part of American history . . . [and] a demonstration that commitment and compassion can coexist with solid scholarship. -- Patricia Nelson Limerick * University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Legacy of Conquest *Enriches our understanding of the first four decades of the twentieth century. -- David Montgomery * Yale University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: WHITE AMERICAN DREAMS 1 Pastoral Dreams in California 2 Mexican "Birds of Passage" PART TWO: RACIAL LIMITATIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM 3 Whiteness and Ethnic Identity 4 "Mexicans Go Home!" PART THREE: DREAMING AMERICA 5 Los
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MW - Rutgers University Press Plant Communities of New Jersey A Study in Landscape Diversity
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I Understanding a Natural Landscape II Influences on the Natural Vegetation of New Jersey III Plants Community Types in New Jersey Habitats IV The Future
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MW - Rutgers University Press Race
Trade ReviewA timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve. * Daily News (New York) *A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers. -- Martin Bernal * author of Black Athena *Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status. * Contemporary Sociology *The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and ‘on-the-ground’ perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race. -- Paula GiddingsWhat unites these essays is a common focus on the ‘social construction’ of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating. * Multicultural Review *
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MW - Rutgers University Press Tell Me a Riddle Tillie Olsen
Book Synopsis�Tell Me a Riddle� renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt Chronology Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen Background to the Story: Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen Critical Essays: The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past - Linda Ray Pratt From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt A Feminist Spiritual Vision - Elaine Neil Orr Death Labors - Joanne Trautmann Banks Motherhood as a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis "No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner Selected Bibliography Permissions
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MW - Rutgers University Press Hives of Sickness Public Health and Epidemics in New York City
Table of ContentsForeword Robert R. Macdonald Introduction: ``Hives of Sickness and Vice'' David RosnerPART I Breeding Grounds for Disease Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City Gretchen A. Condran Accountability for Public Health: Regulating the Housing Market in Nineteenth-Century New York City Elizabeth Blackmar Plagues and Prejudice: Nativism's Construction of Disease in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century New York City Alan M. KrautPART II When Epidemic Strikes "Be Safe. Be Sure. '': New York City's Experience with Epidemic Smallpox Judith Walzer Leavitt A Disease of Cleanliness: Polio in New York City, 1900--1990 Naomi Rogers The Dependent Center: The First Decade of the AIDS Epidemic in New York City Ronald BayerPART III The City Responds Science, Politics, and the Art of Persuasion: Promoting the New Scientific Medicine in New York City Elizabeth Fee Evelynn M. Hammonds The Politics of Public Health in the New York City: Contrasting Styles Since 1920 Daniel M. Fox Notes on Contributors Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Women of Belize Gender and Change in Central America
Book SynopsisThree women living in Belize in Central America describe their experiences of motherhood, marriage, illness, emigration, separation, work or domestic violence, and how it led them to recognize gender inequality. The book shows how they challenged the culture of gender in their home and community.
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MW - Rutgers University Press Hair Raising Beauty Culture and African American Women
Book SynopsisWe all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. Trade ReviewRooks's excellent book is a welcome entry in the feminist debates about American 'beauty culture'... Readable, accessible, and helpfully illustrated. * Choice *Rooks dig deep to describe how beauty and culture have politicized African American women and demonstrates that Western definitions of beauty are often not endorsed by African American women. Compelling. * Booklist *Hair Rising is insightful, engaging, imaginative, and even musical. Rooks harmonizes her voice as a scholar analyzing hair with her voice as a black woman talking politics with other black women, in salons and parlors, to the rhythms of combing, brushing, braiding, and straightening... This a must-read! -- Gloria Wade-Gayles * Professor of English and Women's Studies, Spelman College, and author of Pushed Back to Strength: A *Rooks deconstructs dominant cultural notions of femininity and/or beauty with humor, dignity, and a defiant sassiness. Read this book! -- Joanne M. Braxton * Frances and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of America Studies and English, The College of William and M *Table of ContentsNappi by nature: afros, hot combs, and black pride Beauty, race, and black pride Advertising contradictions Broadening representational boundaries Gender, hair, and African American women's magazines In search of connections
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MW - Rutgers University Press A Theory of Religion
Book SynopsisThis 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.
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MW - Rutgers University Press Behind Closed Doors Womens Oral Narratives in Tunis
Book SynopsisTunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among its inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite.
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MW - Rutgers University Press Born Again in Brazil The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty
Book SynopsisCombining historical, political, and ethnographic research, the author shows that the relationship between faith healing and illness in the conversion process is integral to the popularity of Pentecostalism among Brazil's poor.Trade ReviewProfessor Chesnut's succinct study should be required reading for all scholars of comparative religion, intellectual and social history, and Latin American culture. The fruit of an intensive field period of field research in the early 1990s...this volume manages in clear, unredundant, and highly readable style to synthesize the twentieth century history of four of the main Pentecostal denominations...of Brazil as well as exploring in depth the infrastructure and external politics of the largest of these denominations. * Luso-Brazilian Review *This study makes a distinctive contribution to the understanding of these Pentecostal congregations, their members, and their leaders. Although the focus of this study is Betim, Brazil, the dynamic it describes and analyzes is pertinent to similar groups condemned to poverty throughout Latin America. * Journal of Church and State *An exciting and provocative book! Without sensationalizing, Chesnut brings us to an understanding of the spiritual and emotional profundity of conversion. -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett * Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin *An engaging case study of one of the most successful Pentecostal bodies in Latin America. Importantly, it focuses on what most Latin American Pentecostals doùpersonal healing. -- David Stoll * author of Is Latin America Turning Protestant? *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. The Spirit of Brazil 1. A Prophetic History Part II. Exorcising the Demons of Poverty 2. The Preconversion World of Illness 3. Conversion: Crisis, Cure, and Affiliation 4. Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid 5. Health Maintenance through Ideology and Morality Part III. The Church as Institution 6. Authoritarian Assembly: Church Organization 7. From the Assembly of Saints to the Legislative Assembly: Pentecostal Politics in Para Conclusion Notes References Index
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John Wiley & Sons Real Heat Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service
Book SynopsisIn US urban fire departments, women and coloured men have struggled to gain acceptance. In this account, Chetkovich follows the Oakland Fire Department through their training and probation, examining how race and gender affect their attitude, performance and relationships with others.Trade ReviewThe observations and stories revealed in this book are seldom heard by the chief administrator in an organization until it is too late. Ms. Chetkovich's book is an inside observation of the work group culture of the urban fire service that can assist the fire professional in focusing in on specific issues of diversity. Real Heat should be required reading for all new recruits and every fire officer involved in training, evaluating, or supervising entry-level and probationary firefighters. -- Manuel Navarro * Fire Chief, Colorado Springs, Colorado *Brilliant and deeply honest. A head-on look at race, gender, and work practices that reveal the depth of resistance confronting women of all colors who work in ultra-male environments. The text has the painful but compelling ring of truth; it is an elegant and powerful use of ethnography in the service of social policy research. -- Carol Stack * author of Call to Home and All Our Kin, professor of women's studies, University of California, Berk *Table of ContentsA Personal Preface about Fire Ch. 1. After the Door Is Open: Finding One's Place in the Community of Firefighters Ch. 2. Work, Culture, and Identity in the Urban Fire Service Ch. 3. Newcomers at Entry: Reflecting Back, Looking Forward Ch. 4. Initiation: Swimming in the Shark's Tank Ch. 5. Proving Grounds Ch. 6. Learning in Relationship Ch. 7. Becoming an Insider Ch. 8. Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service: Policy Implications Ch. 9. Questions of Identity, Community, and Social Justice
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