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Intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward

Argues that in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves

From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. This book provides an account of how today's parents understand, enforce, and resist the gendering of their children.

Through a focus on their sexual agency, the author demonstrates that Latina girls' experiences with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality inform how they engage and begin to rework their meanings and processes of gender and sexuality. It offers an important understanding of the sexual lives of a traditionally marginalized group.

A stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth made possible by the efforts of the cartmen and other unskilled labourers

Argues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worth

Explores the deeper tension between the ideal of Puritan family life and its messy reality, complicating the way America has thought about its Puritan past

Shows that America's history of racial oppression has had a deep and fundamental effect on the religious beliefs and practices of blacks and whites across America

Presents classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. This book contains anecdotes, a fairy-tale, a bawdy story, and samples of literary criticism.

Argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class

Explain the rise, decline, or stagnant levels of women's political participation, considering how representation is contagious across political institutions

Considers the difference women's and gender history has made to and within national fields of study

Details how families are made and how bonds are created between families in the brave new world of reproductive technology

Provides a clear understanding of how people are spreading ideas and the implications these activities have for business, politics, and everyday life

Asks bold and direct questions about parenthood in contemporary society

Traces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century

Explores the complex ideas about race, racism, and racial identity that have grown up among Afro-Brazilians in the black music scene

Discusses how and why legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate responses to victims of sexual violence

These essays reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism

Investigates the rise of "guerrilla marketing" as a way of understanding increasingly covert and interactive flows of commercial persuasion.

Argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life

A historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti.

Re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America

Illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labour ideology in American culture

Offers a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world's most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in the 21st-century metropolis

Analyses how class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are used to construct difference for both the heroes and the villains in ways that are both conservative and progressive

Shows that the fight over the practices of Wal-Mart can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalism

Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives

A complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict

Provides an overview of an emerging trend in fatherhood and the policy solutions that may help support its growth