Performing sex

A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America.Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category Honorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the Un...

Utopia of understanding

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the test...

Pulpit politics

Discusses the manner in which nationalistic expression forged a new religious relevance to the American experience and the extent to which these diverse styles of religious nationalism created and reflected tension in twentieth-century America.Pulpit Politics discusses the manner in which nationa...

Literacy, ideology, and dialogue

This is the first scholarly examination of the use of dialogic theory and pedagogy by scholars and teachers of writing. Dialogic methods have become extremely important to many different approaches to pedagogy. However, no one has yet noted that such pedagogies are being espoused by scholars and ...

The last resistance

A fundamentally new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis.Radical and uncompromising, The Last Resistance is a penetrating rediscovery of the essential nature of psychoanalysis. Looking at the Freud wars in the historical context of the rise of modern science and the decli...

The vocation of writing

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recognizes how language not only shapes and models u...

The split god

Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.Although Pentecostalism is generally considered a conservative movement, in The Split God Nimi Wariboko shows that its operative everyday notion of God is a radical one that poses, under cover of loyalty, a chal...

Black women and social justice education

Focuses on Black women's experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.Black Women and Social Justice Education explores Black women's experiences and expertise in teaching and learning about justice in a range of form...

Listening to urban kids

Independent researchers interview urban middle school students to get their impressions of the teachers that help them to succeed in schools.According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who "stay on them" to complete their work, maintain orderly cl...

Worldwide pre-raphaelitism

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.Pre-Raphaelitism's influence during the long nineteenth century was far-reaching, affecting artistic and literary thought in places, media, and times far removed from its origins in 1848 London. Worldwide...

Julia kristeva

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.Honorable Mention, 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's visi...

Stairway to heaven

A consideration of China's Mount Emei, long important in Chinese culture and history and of particular significance to Buddhists.Located in a remote area of modern Sichuan province, Mount Emei is one of China's most famous mountains and has long been important to Buddhists. Stairway to Heaven loo...

After artest

Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the "Palace Brawl" of 2004.On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The "Palace Brawl," writes David J...

Between argentines and arabs

Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields:...

Ideology and the urban crisis

Ideology and the Urban Crisis explores the philosophical underpinnings of the contemporary debate surrounding the urban crisis. It examines three major ideologies of American city politics by uncovering and analyzing the philosophical presuppositions of each as derived from the history of politic...

Fracture feminism

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.Feminist writers in British Romanticism often developed alternatives to linear time. Viewing time as a system of social control, writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Mary Shelley wrote about cu...

Emma; or, the unfortunate attachment

An early British novel, attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which explores the problems of first impressions and arranged marriages from the perspective of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both.Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of...

Epic grandeur

Examines both Western and Japanese epic traditions to argue for a new concept of the epic—an epic of peace, toward which the genre is evolving globally.Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic proposes a new concept of the epic. The book is based on the belief that the genre has be...

Tradition and fantasy in the tales of reb nahman of bratslav

Considers the tales of Reb Nahman of Bratslav within a broad cultural milieu, including the romanticism of Reb Nahman's time, contemporary feminist hermeneutics, and the fantastic in various contexts.One of the most radically innovative of Hasidic masters, Reb Nahman of Bratslav transformed image...

Traumatic encounters

Addresses the difficulty of representing the Holocaust in literature and on film.Traumatic Encounters argues for an alternative memorial path in Holocaust and cultural studies-one that shows the vital necessity of thinking in a universal way about an event like the Holocaust. Relying on Hegel's n...

The discipline of freedom

The author interprets Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki's account of Zen practice from a Kantian perspective in order to explore the deep connection between Zen meditation, or zazen, and respect for universal moral principles.The author shows that both Shunryu Suzuki and Kant posit a reciprocally support...

Ecstatic subjects, utopia, and recognition

Interweaves elements of Kristevan and Heideggerian thought in order to reconstruct a linguistically embedded, existentially and affectively rich, dialectical model of willed self-regulation.Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition is a study in critical postmodern social theory. By engaging a d...

Egypt

This book presents new and original insights into the political, social, and economic development of today's Egypt. The case study of Kamshish, a small village in the heart of the Delta, sheds light on the recent social history of Egypt and the evolving relations between Egyptian rulers and peopl...

American literature i

Subtractive schooling

Provides an enhanced sense of what's required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.–Mexican youth in America.Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book Award presented by the American Educational Research Association Winner of the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award ...

Toward a contemporary understanding of pure land buddhism

Explores the potential significance of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Thought in the contemporary world, and provides a new model of interreligious dialogue as Buddhist thinkers engage with Christian theologians concerned with the present-day significance of their own tradition.2000CHOICE Outstandin...

Critical perspectives on early childhood education

This book explores key policy issues related to early childhood education. Through the contributions of various professionals in the field, the editors provide a vision, practical and possible, of early childhood education in the 1990s. Part I delves into the complex world, both personal and prof...

Whitehead and bradley

In his magnum opus, Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead claims a special affinity to Oxford philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley. McHenry clarifies exactly how much of Whitehead's metaphysics is influenced by and accords with the main principles of Bradley's "absolute idealism." He argues ...

Democratic policy implementation in an ambiguous world

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed a...

Spectacle pedagogy

Examines the interrelationships between art, politics, and visual culture post-9/11.This book examines the complex interrelationships between art, politics, and visual culture through the concept of spectacle pedagogy. In a series of essays Charles R. Garoian and Yvonne M. Gaudelius utilize the n...

Romantic poetry and the fragmentary imperative

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory.Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative locates Byron (and, to a lesser extent, Joyce) within a genealogy of romantic poetry understood not so much as imaginative s...

Old nations, new voters

Groundbreaking empirical study of voting by resident aliens in established democracies.In this groundbreaking study, David C. Earnest analyzes why democracies give noncitizens the right to vote. Bringing together theoretical debates in international relations and comparative politics about global...

Programming for problem solving

Devolution and black state legislators

Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry by southern conservatives, "new federalism" ha...

Meditations of global first philosophy

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.In Meditations of Global First Philosophy, Ashok K. Gangadean builds on decades of research on the emergence of global reason to trace the roots of logos in different cultural milieux. Gangadean crosses into the uncharted frontier of global ...

The gods have landed

A comprehensive account of the religious dimensions of the UFO/flying saucer experienceThe Gods Have Landed is a comprehensive account of the religious dimension of the UFO/flying saucer experience. It examines the religious meanings attached to UFOs by the larger society as well as specific move...

Islam in iran

A scholarly and authoritative history of the emergence and growth of Islam in Iran during the early and later medieval periods. This book, by I. P. Petrushevsky, the foremost Soviet Iranologist, was originally published in Russia in 1966.After discussing the Arabian environment in which the faith...

Schooling the daughters of marianne

This first book-length study of girls' primary education in France gives a concrete picture of how Frenchwomen were, and are, prepared for their roles in society.Until the 1960s, the primary school provided the only formal education for the majority of French children. Long recognized as a major ...