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An exploration of feminist legal history in America, covering two centuries of American history

Built on bracing original research that spans gay men's intimacies and parenting in this country to plural and non-marital forms of family in South Africa and China, this book decouples the taken for granted relationships between love, marriage, and parenthood.

An exploration of the suburban gay community in America

A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing.

Encompassing architecture, forms of worship, rabbinic life, fundraising, creative liturgies, and feminism, this is the go-to history for understanding the synagogue's significance in American Jewish life.

Focuses on women's Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities

Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.

With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to think, about those eight months.

Highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process in the US, drawing on Census data and interviews

Explores ideas of race and culture through the lens of contemporary media and cultural commentary

An analysis of Asian American literature exploring second generation Asian American Women's sense of anger despite largely unremarkable upbringings

Shows how intercultural interactions between Europeans and indigenous people influenced military choices and strategic action. Ranging from the Muscovites on the western steppe to the French and English in North America, it analyzes how diplomatic and military systems were designed to accommodate the demands and expectations of local peoples.

Investigates whether tough punishments for sex offenders in America are undermining public safety

Challenges the believe that West Indian American girls are but assert agency in defining race through strategic consumption of popular culture

A reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France.

A political history of African American literature

Investigates how effective good media coverage for American activists is during political campaigns

The first broad comparative examination of progressive religious activism in the United States

An exploration of the American Constitution in action through the lens of the American university

A journey deep into the underworld of graffiti artists

Explores globalized ideas of gendered constructions and contradictions though the transnational media

An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin America

Explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.

Addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States

An ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and the homeless of New York City

A historical examination of the social culture of body image

An in-depth look at how aspirations are developed in public schools in Silicon Valley through emphasis of the region's success-driven culture and economic insecurities

An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries

An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries

An analysis of how notions of practice can inhibit urban legal service lawyers and their clients' pursuit of justice in the American legal system