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Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.

This volume examines the story of Pennsylvania's pivotal role in the American Revolution, focusing on the rural areas to the north and west. It asks questions such as: what was the ethnic, religious, and political make-up of the area on the eve of revolt?

This biographical exploration of Francis Cooper, an unknown avocational photographer, offers an unusual perspective on turn-of-the century American photography. It represents a social approach to photographic history and argues for a cultural understanding of photography as a social practice.

An anthology of essays on early Italian painting, by critic-historian Richard Offner. It spans 14th-century Florentine art and is illustrated with photographs. Three interpretative essays approach the topic from different perspectives: historiographical, philosophical and biographical.

This is a historical chronicle of Hungary's war-time experiences. Interviews with soldiers, Jewish survivors of the camps, Hungarian pilots, POWs in Russian labour camps, and others are featured. The larger themes of the tragedy of war and the consequences of individual actions are explored.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the author was one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats, specializing in disarmament negotiations. In this volume, he describes the situation in Moscow and the Kremlin during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war which brought the world to the brink of confrontation.

Examining the architecture of the church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, this work offers a series of essays that explore its sociopolitical, artisanal and cultural contexts. The author studies the design theory of its architect and shows how people were affected by, or contributed to, the construction.

This volume offers a comprehensive appraisal of how the modern civil rights movement came about, what changes it brought about in relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent.

The essays in this volume explore whether Kierkegaard's writings are misogynistic, ambivalent or essentialist in their views of woman and the feminine or whether they are liberatory and empowering. His style - labyrinthine and multilayered - has been seen to adumbrate "ecriture feminine".

An examination of the grassroots movement that campaigned against incinerators to deal with the large amount of waste in American society. The authors' research is based on interviews and newspaper files, and a final chapter discusses the three successful projects and the five defeated ones.

These essays examine birth control, abortion, family planning, and population control in a public policy context, from the 19th century to the present. They represent a variety of perspectives and scholarly interests with regard to historical interpretation.

These essays reveal fresh aspects of Bernard Shaw by examining his relationships with twelve interesting figures, both famous and unknown. Among the figures examined in juxtaposition with Shaw are Queen Victoria, W.B. Yeats, H.L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Winston Churchill.

These essays explore the many aspects of Wollstonecraft's thought. Ten feminist scholars argue that, by reason of the scope and complexity of her thought, Wollstonecraft belongs in the "canon" of political philosophers, along with her contemporaries, Rousseau and Burke.

A sequel to "Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania", this guidebook describes 49 natural places in Pennsylvania, featuring their old-growth forests, rivers, waterfalls, botanical localities, wetlands, geological formations, endangered ecosystems and special birdwatching areas.

In this contribution to current debates over the meaning of date rape and how it should be punished in criminal terms, the author brings together lawyers, philosophers and feminists to explore "communicative sexuality" as a model for the condemnation of date rape.

More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. This text examines how the site of Washington's 1778 winter encampment evolved into the tourist mecca it is today and what, exactly, it is supposed to represent.

In this work on what constitutes "primitive" art, Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic expression.

This text deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography, from its beginnings to World War I. It covers the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs and the public, and the response of intellectuals and painters.

Argues that G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche share a concept of individuality that combines autonomy and community, but that they develop this concept in opposite directions, leaving an irreconcilable tension between political means of individual fulfilllment.

Korean Americans including immigrants and their offspring have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist temples in the US. This title takes a sustained look at this new component of the American religious mosaic.

Examines the stained-glass windows in the Gothic cathedral of Reims within the context of the evolution of the French monarchy and medieval art.

This anthology provides a unique, multifaceted overview of a subject of enduring importance in today's religiously pluralistic societies. The essays collected here, written by scholars with an eye toward the average reader, broadly survey the dramatization of the Passion and consider the significance of this focus for both Christians and Jews.

Looking at the ideas that informed the protest, social movements and activism of the 1960s, this text combines traditional intellectual biography with social history to examine a group of intellectuals whose thinking was crucial in the formulation of New Left political theory.

Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Gunther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture.

Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.

Examines the relationship between art and morality discussed in the writings of American pragmatist John Dewey. Argues that there is a clear connection between the experience of art and the project of moral cultivation.