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Temple University Press,U.S. The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university archives, establishing new sites of storytelling and political activism. The Archival Turn in Feminism chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution. Cultural studies scholar Kate Eichhorn examines institutions such as the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, The Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University, and the Barnard Zine Library. She also profiles the archivists who have assembled these significant feminist collections. Eichhorn shows why young feminist activists, cultural producers, and scholars embraced the archive, and how they used it to stage political alliances across eras and generations.A volume in the American Literatures Initiative
£57.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America
Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students’ consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working. In Consuming Work, Yasemin Besen-Cassino reveals that many American high school and college students work for social reasons, not monetary gain. Most are affluent, suburban, white youth employed in part-time jobs at places like the Coffee Bean so they can be associated with a cool brand, hangout with their friends, and get discounts. Consuming Work offers a fascinating picture of youth at work and how jobs are marketed to these students. Besen-Cassino also shows how the roots of gender and class inequality in the labor force have their beginnings in this critical labor sector. Exploring the social meaning of youth at work, and providing critical insights into labor and the youth workforce, Consuming Work contributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labor.
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Consuming Work: Youth Labor in America
Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students’ consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working. In Consuming Work, Yasemin Besen-Cassino reveals that many American high school and college students work for social reasons, not monetary gain. Most are affluent, suburban, white youth employed in part-time jobs at places like the Coffee Bean so they can be associated with a cool brand, hangout with their friends, and get discounts. Consuming Work offers a fascinating picture of youth at work and how jobs are marketed to these students. Besen-Cassino also shows how the roots of gender and class inequality in the labor force have their beginnings in this critical labor sector. Exploring the social meaning of youth at work, and providing critical insights into labor and the youth workforce, Consuming Work contributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labor.
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water
A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
For psychotherapist, painter, feminist, filmmaker, writer, and disability activist Harilyn Rousso, hearing well-intentioned people tell her, "You're so inspirational!" is patronizing, not complimentary.In her empowering and at times confrontational memoir, Don't Call Me Inspirational, Rousso, who has cerebral palsy, describes overcoming the prejudice against disability--not overcoming disability. She addresses the often absurd and ignorant attitudes of strangers, friends, and family. Rousso also examines her own prejudice toward her disabled body, and portrays the healing effects of intimacy and creativity, as well as her involvement with the disability rights community. She intimately reveals herself with honesty and humor and measures her personal growth as she goes from "passing" to embracing and claiming her disability as a source of pride, positive identity, and rebellion. A collage of images about her life, rather than a formal portrait, Don't Call Me Inspirational celebrates Rousso's wise, witty, productive, outrageous life, disability and all.
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in Context
Reveals both routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have characterized International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and IMF-Argentina relations in particular, from 1944 to the present
£62.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations. Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its current revival has changed klezmer’s meaning historically. Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between sacred and secular in Jewish music, and the development of Philadelphia's distinctive “Russian Sher” medley, a unique and masterfully crafted composition. Including a significant amount of musical transcriptions, Klezmer chronicles this special musical genre from its heyday in the immigrant era, through the mid-century period of its decline through its revitalization from the 1980s to today.
£52.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Elements of Discipline: Nine Principles for Teachers and Parents
How teachers and parents can cultivate competent, happy children using a few simple principles as their guide
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World
Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America
Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America
Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Just Who Loses?: Discrimination in the United States, Volume 2
A rich vein of data that lays bare pervasive discriminatory environments and their systemic consequences for "targets and non-targets" of discrimination
£70.20
Temple University Press,U.S. How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying
As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.
£23.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. "We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs
The inner-city world of at-risk teens through their powerful photos and stories
£23.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education
Challenging the common idea that education can save the individual and society from major problems of the modern world.
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King
Michael Awkward’s Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city’s history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. Philadelphia Freedoms explores NBA players’ psychic pain during a playoff game the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination; themes of fatherhood and black masculinity in the soul music produced by Philadelphia International Records; class conflict in Andrea Lee’s novel Sarah Phillips; and the theme of racial healing in Oprah Winfrey’s 1997 film, Beloved. Awkward closes his examination of racial trauma and black identity with a discussion of candidate Barack Obama’s speech on race at Philadelphia’s Constitution Center, pointing to the conflict between the nation’s ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America’s first black president.
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Blue Juice: Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine
How veterinarians and pet owners manage companion animal euthanasia.
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation
In 1784, when Americans first voyaged to China, they confronted Chinese authorities who were unaware that the United States even existed. Nevertheless, a long, complicated, and fruitful trade relationship was born after American traders, missionaries, diplomats, and others sailed to China with lofty ambitions: to acquire fabulous wealth, convert China to Christianity, and even command a Chinese army. In America's First Adventure in China, John Haddad provides a colourful history of the evolving cultural exchange and interactions between these countries. He recounts how American expatriates adopted a pragmatic attitude - as well as an entrepreneurial spirit and improvisational approach - to their dealings with the Chinese. Haddad shows how opium played a potent role in the dreams of Americans who either smuggled it or opposed its importation, and he considers the missionary movement that compelled individuals to accept a hard life in an alien culture. As a result of their efforts, Americans achieved a favourable outcome - they established a unique presence in China - and cultivated a relationship whose complexities continue to grow. John Haddad is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Popular Culture at Penn State Harrisburg. He was awarded the Gutenberg-e Prize in 2002 for his dissertation, which was published as The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876.
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
The role of cultural elites and journalists in promoting reading as a means of self
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Israel's Dead Soul
How Zionism became an exceptional ideology in the eyes of the west
£24.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story
In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of “wilding”—episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble. Police intent on immediate justice for the victim coerced five African-American and Latino boys to plead guilty. The teenage boys were quickly convicted and imprisoned. Natalie Byfield, who covered the case for the New York Daily News, now revisits the story of the Central Park Five from her perspective as a black female reporter in Savage Portrayals. Byfield illuminates the race, class, and gender bias in the massive media coverage of the crime and the prosecution of the now-exonerated defendants. Her sociological analysis and first-person account persuasively argue that the racialized reportage of the case buttressed efforts to try juveniles as adults across the nation. Savage Portrayals casts new light on this famous crime and its far-reaching consequences for the wrongly accused and the justice system.
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. The Philly Fan's Code: The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes of the Last 50 Years
An original and quirky take on Philadelphia legends and the meaning of
£14.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Art Museum Opposites
A book of opposites for young readers, based on the Philadelphia Museum of Art
£14.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The Persuasive Power of Campaign Advertising
The Persuasive Power of Campaign Advertising offers a comprehensive overview of political advertisements and their changing role in the Internet age. Travis Ridout and Michael Franz examine how these ads function in various kinds of campaigns and how voters are influenced by them. The authors particularly study where ads are placed, asserting that television advertising will still be relevant despite the growth of advertising on the Internet. The authors also explore the recent phenomenon of outrageous ads that "go viral" on the web-which often leads to their replaying as television news stories, generating additional attention. The Persuasive Power of Campaign Advertising features the first analysis of the impact on voters of media coverage of political advertising and shows that televised political advertising continues to have widespread influence on the choices that voters make at the ballot box.
£23.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Action=Vie: A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France
Act Up-Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the interests of those affected by HIV through openly political activism. Action=Vie, the English-language translation of Christophe Broqua’s study of the grassroots activist branch, explains the reasons for the group’s success and sheds light on Act Up's defining features—such as its unique articulation between AIDS and gay activism.Featuring numerous accounts by witnesses and participants, Broqua traces the history of Act Up-Paris and shows how thousands of gay men and women confronted the AIDS epidemic by mobilizing with public actions. Act Up-Paris helped shape the social definition not only of HIV-positive persons but also of sexual minorities. Broqua analyzes the changes brought about by the group, from the emergence of new treatments for HIV infection to normalizing homosexuality and a controversy involving HIV-positive writers’ remarks about unprotected sex. This rousing history ends in the mid-2000s before marriage equality and antiretroviral treatments caused Act Up-Paris to decline.
£100.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing
In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship.
£24.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
In her evocative ethnographic study, Body Language, Kimberly Lau traces the multiple ways in which the success of an innovative fitness program illuminates what identity means to its Black female clientele and how their group interaction provides a new perspective on feminist theories of identity politics--especially regarding the significance of identity to political activism and social change. Sisters in Shape, Inc., Fitness Consultants (SIS), a Philadelphia company, promotes balance in physical, mental, and spiritual health. Its program goes beyond workouts, as it educates and motivates women to make health and fitness a priority. Discussing the obstacles at home and the importance of the group's solidarity to their ability to stay focused on their goals, the women speak to the ways in which their commitment to reshaping their bodies is a commitment to an alternative future. Body Language shows how the group's explorations of black women's identity open new possibilities for identity-based claims to recognition, justice, and social change.
£24.99
Temple University Press,U.S. From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum
Illuminating the moral views on violence, from the moral restraint of the just-war tradition through pragmatic nonviolence to principled variations of pacifism
£21.99
Temple University Press,U.S. AFSCME's Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city.
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy
Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically active
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk: Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy
Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically active
£54.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement
A history of the re-emergence of midwifery in America
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research
Addressing essential questions of women's movement activism and political change in Western democracies
£62.10
Temple University Press,U.S. The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.
£62.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot"
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the
£31.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Youth Violence: Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership
The first comprehensive overview to examine how sex and race/ethnicity impact the interrelationships among youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia
A critical study of university-driven development from the neighborhood resident's perspective
£22.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions
A comprehensive introduction to the Caribbean's African-based religions
£36.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge
What forces are needed for social change in a knowledge society?
£62.10
Temple University Press,U.S. How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America
"History repeats itself, but it never repeats itself exactly," observes Douglas Porpora in this powerful indictment of U.S. intervention in Central America. Comparing the general public's reaction to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany with American public opinion of U.S. participation in the genocidal policies of Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary forces, and the governments of Guatemala and El Salvador among others, Porpora demonstrates that moral indifference to the suffering of others was the common response. With reference to Hannah Arendt's thesis of the banality of evil, he develops the concept of a "Holocaust-like event" and examines how even a democratic society can be capable of something on the order of a Holocaust. Unlike other accounts of the Holocaust and genocide, this book focuses on the citizenry served or ruled by genocidal governments rather than on the governments themselves. Porpora argues that moral indifference and lack of interest in critical reflection are key factors that enable Holocaust-like events to happen And he characterizes American society as being typically indifferent to the fate of other people, uninformed, and anti-intellectual. Porpora cites numerous horrifying examples of U.S.-backed Latin American government actions against their own peasants, Indians, and dissident factions. He offers finally a theory of public moral indifference and argues that although such indifference is socially created by government, the media, churches, and other institutions, we, the public, must ultimately take responsibility for it. How Holocausts Happen is at once a scholarly examination of the nature of genocide and a stinging indictment of American society.
£32.40
Temple University Press,U.S. The Heidegger Case: On Philosophy and Politics
Original essays raising issues concerning Heidegger's involvement with the Nazis
£33.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Inventing Vietnam – The War in Film and Television
The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays, most of which are previously unpublished, analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films and television programs. From diverse perspectives, the contributors comprehensively examine early documentary and fiction films, postwar films of the 1970s such as "The Deer Hunter" and "Apocalypse Now", and the reformulated postwar films of the 1980s "Platoon", "Full Metal Jacket", and "Born on the Fourth of July". They also address made-for-television movies and serial dramas like "China Beach" and "Tour of Duty". The authors show how the earliest film responses to America's involvement in Vietnam employ myth and metaphor and are at times unable to escape glamorized Hollywood. Later films strive to portray a more realistic Vietnam experience, often creating images that are an attempt to memorialize or to manufacture different kinds of myths. As they consider direct and indirect representations of the war, the contributors also examine the power or powerlessness of individual soldiers, the racial views presented, and inscriptions of gender roles. Also included in this volume is a chapter that discusses teaching Vietnam films and helping students discern and understand film rhetoric, what the movies say, and who they chose to communicate those messages. Michael Anderegg is Professor of English at the University of North Dakota, and author of two other books: "William Wyler" and "David Lean".
£28.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Expected Miracles – Surgeons at Work
"Expected Miracles" explores the world of surgeons from their own perspective how they perceive themselves, their work, colleagues, and communities. Recognizing that surgery is an art, a craft, a science, and a business, Joan Cassell offers, through poignant, painful, and thrilling descriptions, a vivid portrayal of the culture of surgery. Cassell has entered a realm where laypersons are usually horizontal, naked, and anesthetized. Using the central metaphor of the surgical 'miracle', she illuminates the drama of the operating room, where surgeons and patients alike expect heroic performance. She takes us backstage to overhear conversations about patients, families, and colleagues, observe operations, eavesdrop on gossip about surgeons' performances, and examine the values, behavior, and misbehavior of surgeons at work. Said one Chief of Surgery, 'You couldn't have a good surgeon who didn't believe in the concept of the Hero'. Following this lead, Cassell explores the heroic temperament of those who perform surgical 'miracles' and finds that the demands and pressures of surgical practice require traits that in other fields, or in personal interactions, are often regarded as undesirable. She observes, 'surgeons must tread a fine line between courage and recklessness, confidence and hubris, a positive attitude and a magical one'. This delicate balance and frequent imbalance is portrayed through several character sketches. She contrasts the caring attention and technical mastery of The Exemplary Surgeon with the theatrical posturing of The Prima Donna and the slick showiness and questionable morals of The Sleazy Surgeon. She also identifies the attributes that surgeons admire in each other. They believe that only peers can really evaluate each other, and, while doctors might not speak negatively about colleagues in public, the community of surgeons exerts considerable pressure on its members to perform competently. Unlike 'doctor-bashing' chronicles, "Expected Miracles" seeks to understand the charismatic authority of surgeons, its instability, and its price-to surgeons and to patients. Joan Cassell is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology of Washington University and the editor of "Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences" (Temple).
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Muchachas No More – Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author note: Elsa M. Chaney is Chair of Women in International Development Program and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Mary Garcia Castro is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
£30.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition
Argues for a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism
£25.19
