Transnationalism reversed

Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.Winner of the 2012 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies Association Acid attacks against women and girls have captured the attention of th...

Culture in action

By examining how Hindu men talk about marriage and family, this book shows how culture reinforces male dominance in Hindu society.In Culture in Action Derne explores the interconnections between male dominance, joint-family living, Indian emotional life, and a cultural focus on group pressures. D...

A shiʿite anthology

Created by the Prophet Muhammad and his twelve Imams, the Hadith is an ancient and profoundly influential body of religious texts in Shi'ite Muslim literature, second in importance only to the Holy Koran itself.Texts on the practical aspects of life and pure metaphysics are included in this first...

Culturally contested pedagogy

Advocates for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices.Winner of the 2006 Edward Fry Book Award presented by the National Reading Conference The voices of teachers, parents, and students create...

A postmodern reader

These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. Here philosophers, social and political commentators, as well as cultural and literary ana...

The meanings of marital equality

An ethnographic study of marital equality.Scott R. Harris develops an interactionist, interpretive approach to studying equality in social life by synthesizing the theoretical perspectives of four founding figures in interactionist, social constructivist thought-Herbert Blumer, Alfred Schutz, Har...

Mediating globalization

Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain.Has globalization fundamentally altered international relations, producing a race to the bottom in which states compete for economic growth and development by adopting similar liberal economic strateg...

The syndetic paradigm

Offers a new theoretical paradigm that goes beyond the limitations of Freudian and Jungian psychological models.In The Syndetic Paradigm, Robert Aziz argues that the Jungian Paradigm is a deeply flawed theoretical model that falls short of its promise. Aziz offers in its stead what he calls the S...

The body in medical culture

Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How do concepts and constructions of the body shape people's experiences of agency and objectification within medical culture? As an object of scrutiny, the med...

The way of water and sprouts of virtue

Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by ...

They're playing my song

The greatest songwriters of the rock era tell how they created their biggest hits.They're Playing My Song collects for the first time over fifty in-depth, personal interviews with the greatest songwriters of the rock era. Author Bruce Pollock has been writing about rock and pop music for over six...

Russel wright

Explores the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright, whose former home in the Hudson Valley—Manitoga—is now a national historic landmark.Winner of the 2014 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network This catalogue was published by the Samuel D...

Understanding minority-serving institutions

Explores the particulars of minority-serving institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness.Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions explores these important institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness, with the hope of sparking collaboration among the various ...

Thinking the inexhaustible

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, i...

Studies in jewish myth and messianism

This book deals with the nature and development of Jewish myth from the Talmudic period through Kabbalah to Hasidism. It describes the changes in this myth in its various stages and the external influences on it. The author shows that myth is in the essence of the Jewish religion and that, rather...

Education feminism

Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women's studies.Winner of the 2015 Critics Choice Book Award presented by the American Educational Studies AssociationWinner of the 2015 Critics Choice Book Award presented b...

Democratic education stretched thin

Argues that the complexity of our pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education.Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on...

Naturalizing heidegger

Explores the evolution of Heidegger's thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to...

Economic interdependence in ukrainian-russian relations

Explores the emerging political economy of the former Soviet Union.In the most detailed study to date of the emerging international political economy of the former Soviet Union, Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations analyzes the intractable economic dilemmas facing Russia's neig...

Federman's fictions

A comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and critics.This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman's many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studie...

The ottoman empire and the world economy

The Ottoman Empire is approahced through analysis of its political economy based on world systems theory. Relations with Europe constituted one of the key factors that shaped the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Yet a comprehensive account of the nature, development, and consequences of these r...

Hans jonas's ethic of responsibility

Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas's environmental ethics.Despite his tremendous impact on the German Green Party and the influence of his work on contemporary debates about stem cell research in the United States, Hans Jonas's (1903–1993) philosophical contributions...

The browning of america and the evasion of social justice

Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice.This book considers the challenge that the so-called browning of America poses for any discussion of the future of race and social justice. In the philosophy of race there has been litt...

Phenomenology and future generations

Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.In the face of widespread environmental and social destabilization and growing uncertainty about the future of humanity, this collection of essays brings the philosophical t...

Encountering the other(s)

Europe and the United States now confront many of the same unresolved issues of nationalist, religious, racial, and ethnic intolerance. The book addresses the question: How can the humanistic disciplines and social sciences play a role in a political transformation or address cultural difference?...

Consuming citizens

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the underside of mestizo modernity. Examining a divers...

Reclaiming the spiritual in art

Examines the role of the sacred in art and makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in ...

Black women and public health

Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Black Women and Public Health creates an urgently needed interdisciplinary dialogue about issues of race, gender, and health. An enduring history o...

Shiʿite islam

Despite a growing interest in the last hundred years in both orientalism and comparative religions, and the fact that there are over fifty million Shi'a Muslims, until now there has been no thorough and objective study of that part of Islam called Shi'ism for Western scholars. The present work pr...

Martial arts as embodied knowledge

A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exi...

A discourse on disenchantment

This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world-a world stripped of mysterious and supernatural forces by the demythologizing power of reason and modern science. It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on th...

Having a word with angus graham

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary...

Global convulsions

Addresses issues concerning race, ethnicity, and nationlism in both their domestic and international dimension.Global Convulsions affords the reader an array of observations, data, and insights pertaining to both local and global events around the issues of race, ethnicity and nationalism at the ...

What schools can do

This book is organized around three themes: mechanisms of domination and control; pedagogies of possibility; and theory as critique. It links education with an analysis of politics and economics, and takes as central the possibilities of schools as places where social critique and the empowerment...

When prophets die

When the charismatic founder/leader of a religious movement dies, the popular belief is that the movement usually disintegrates. However, many new religions not only survive but prosper, despite leadership transition. In this book, prominent scholars examine what happened to eleven new movements ...

Islam in modern turkey

A biography of the prominent Turkish theologian and thinker.Islam in Modern Turkey presents one of the most comprehensive studies in English of the seminal Turkish thinker and theologian, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1876–1960). A devout Muslim who strongly believed in peacefully coexisting with the W...

The olde daunce

In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The ...

Life after the soviet union

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.In separate chapters covering Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, this book examines the impact of the radical social, economi...

Heterosexism

A ground-breaking book that shows that the prevailing sexual ethic is no longer useful.In this ground-breaking book the authors show that the prevailing sexual ethic is no longer useful. It presumes as ideal, a uniform morality based on a limited understanding of human sexuality. Heterosexism is ...

Productive postmodernism

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers ar...

Killing children in british fiction

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of children killing or being killed. Thoughtfully c...

A sort of utopia

Scarsdale, New York, is a small community with a large reputation. Long before it had gained general recognition as a source of fad diets and the presumed site of sensational murders, it was well-known in upper-middle-class circles for the rigor of its zoning, the excellence of its schools, the s...

Congressional preemption

Examines the use of preemption powers by Congress to completely or partially remove regulatory authority from state and local governments.Congressional Preemption provides an in-depth account of the use of preemption powers by Congress to either partially or completely remove regulatory authority...

The politics of torah

A study of the origins and early history of the Agudat Israel movement in Germany, the first international political movement among Orthodox Jews.Founded in Germany in 1912, Agudat Israel was the first comprehensive, international political movement among Orthodox Jews. This study examines the fo...

Narrating postmodern time and space

Defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modern writing by citing examples from two modern and three postmodern writers: Italo Calvino, John Barth, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, and Antonio Tabucchi.Francese defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modernist prose by citi...

Folk songs of the catskills

Patronage and community in medieval china

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and inv...

Troubling play

This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides-notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues. Sh...

Incentive pay and career ladders for today's teachers

This book examines how teacher incentive pay and career ladder programs have been implemented-what forms they've taken; what issues arose as programs were established; what their impact has been so far; and what their future might be. It provides a program taxonomy and conceptual framework for un...