This miniature edition of the acclaimed photo-essay book includes 60 excerpts from Cowen's moving essays, illustrated with 30 radiant photos from the original book. These real-life stories of friendship are poignant, humorous, inspirational, and …
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This miniature edition of the acclaimed photo-essay book includes 60 excerpts from Cowen's moving essays, illustrated with 30 radiant photos from the original book. These real-life stories of friendship are poignant, humorous, inspirational, and …
Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories
Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in "Inside/Out" employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, …
India has long been dominated by the upper castes, even though the lower castes make up more than two thirds of the population. This book examines how the lower castes have become more assertive in recent decades.
Sources of plays discussed in the text: p. 248-251.
Fighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble Between Jewish Women and Jewish Men
Why would an American ethnic group use racist terms, such as "JAP," "the Jewish prince', and the "ghetto girl," to describe itself? In her history of Jewish acculturation during the twentieth century, Riv-Ellen Press addresses this compelling …
Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen
"This accessible, clearly written book . . . may inspire ordinary people to work toward full desegregation of our society."-"Publishers Weekly" Hilfiker explains how, notwithstanding the various myths and legends of black urban poverty, the truth …
This is a sequel to the popular Yellow on the Broom. It takes Betsy Whyte's (1919-1988) story to the end of World War II, and includes additional material not previously published. It recounts, in vivid detail, the heady years of adolescence, her …
Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History
Three graduate students, several academics, and several researchers are the contributors to this collection of accounts by and about women immigrants to New Zealand. The stories, which mainly post-date WWII, consider the experiences of women from …
Together Forever: The Gay Man's Guide to Lifelong Love
loving, lasting, committed relationship One of the greatest challenges that gay men face today is deciding to be in a long-term committed relationship and then learning how to make it work. Dr. Kantor busts the myths that exist in the gay …
Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Women's Health Concerns Worldwide
"Globalizing Feminist Bioethics" is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of …
Hailed by Life as one of the great preachers of our time; spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored church in the United States; Howard Thurman was a …
Sex and Single Girls: Women Write on Sexuality
In this frank and lively collection of personal essays, well-known writers and feminists address topics ranging from online sex to abortion, from bisexuality to interracial relationships, creating a complex portrait of women's sexual experiences, …
Divided into male and female sections, this dictionary provides an alphabetical listing of Muslim names in both English and Arabic. Each name has a description of its origin and meaning as well as indication of whether the name is derived from …
The Goddess Within with Jewelry
The goddess exists in every woman—she is, always has been, and always will be a vital presence in our world. Captured in this wonderfully illustrated volume are the inspiring thoughts of modern goddesses, from Bette Davis to Madonna. Read their …
Toward a New Psychology of Women
In the twenty years since its publication, this book has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men's and women's psychological development. Toward a New Psychology of Women revolutionized concepts …
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/O Sexualities
In Chicano/a popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at …
Am I a Woman?: A Skeptic's Guide to Gender
What is it that really makes a woman a woman? Is it anatomy? Does she behave differently than men? Does it matter how others perceive her? In this sharp, funny, and insightful book, Cynthia Eller discovers that the answer is harder to pinpoint …
reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoy's father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced …
The Heritage of Sufism, Volume II: The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500)
This collection examines the roots of the artistic renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called "the New Musicology." Through case studies …
An Introduction to Disability Studies - 2nd Edition
Disability studies has become a legitimate area of academic study. It is multi-disciplinary in its critique of the oppressions that have historically "dumped" disabled people on the margins of society. This fully revised and updated edition not …
Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam
With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of original essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers …
Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right
This book rages against the move towards the conservative, assimilationist politics promoted by some gay men and lesbians—whom Goldstein has named "homocons"—and embraced by a liberal media all too eager to erase the progressive roots of the gay …
The bestselling author of "Drinking: A Love Story" and "Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs" has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite—for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure—is shaped and constrained …
Timeless words of wisdom from Native American leaders such as Chief Seattle and Chief Joseph accompany evocative photographs in a beautifully designed miniature edition of Curtis' classic work. Full color.
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance
Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captive audience. Does this sound like your educational experience? Would you like it to be? Jyl Lynn Felman, performance artist, feminist, and teacher of over twenty years, …
'Raboteau provides the single best general introduction to (Black Church History) so far in print.
Gender and Work in Today's World: A Reader
Nancy Sacks and Catherine Marrone have collected the classic and current readings that reflect the changing realities of gender and work in modern society. Promoting gender equality through balanced analysis of the sexes, "Gender and Work in …
Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America
Gifted journalist Gelareh Asayesh writes indelibly of her struggle to balance an Iranian childhood with her adult life in America. "A brave and beautifully written memoir that should be read by all who seek to understand Iran, America, or the …
Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
As media and pop culture latched onto the small, militant community group, the Panthers became adept at exploiting and manipulating this coverage. Ultimately, the news media and government campaign to eradicate the Panthers elevated them to a …