How have society's values and attitudes toward sexuality and morality changed over the centuries? Why and how has the state sought...
This important collection of articles reflects the growing recognition that the study of women whose primary relation is to other...
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience...
The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The...
''Anderson's mix of the language of sociology and the more colorful street idiom makes a complex social phenomenon accessible...
Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study...
Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural...
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities...
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current...
In Childerley a twelfth-century church rises above the rolling quilt of pastures and grain fields. Volvos and tractors share...
The term ''feminism'' conjures up the promise of resistance to the various forms of oppression women face. But feminism's ability...
There is no question that AIDS has been, and continues to be, one of the most destructive diseases of the century, taking thousands...
The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of...
Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable...
A Jewish physician and pioneering psychiatrist, Wulf Sachs first met the man he calls ''John Chavafambira'' in a Johannesburg...
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