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In his Cullercoats paintings, Winslow Homer took as his main subject the lives and labours of the village's women and their strong sense of community. These paintings display his masterly uses of watercolor. The Cullercoats paintings show Homer in a new light, and Tatham's revelatory account provides the long-overdue attention they deserve.

Examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.

Tells the remarkable story behind the construction of the second, 1890, Madison Square Garden and the controversial sculpture that crowned it. Set amid the magnificent achievements of nineteenth-century American art and architecture, the book delves into the fascinating private lives of the era's most prominent architect and sculptor.

Brings together scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. By focusing on writers' often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.

Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In this book Dan O'Brien investigates these shared concerns of the two authors.

Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli- Nu'ma-ni- (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu'ma-ni- took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.

Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari`a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women's active participation in their legal affairs.

Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris.

During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation.

Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.

Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.

Presents a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.

Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and Bird of Paradise (1969). This penetrating new critical edition makes both plays available for the first time, giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand her work.

Provides a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organisations where resistance leads to negotiated change. In a series of case studies, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries.

This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.

A novel of life in the mixed culture that existed in Southern Spain before the expulsion of Arabs and Jews, following the life of Abu Jaafar, the bookbinder, and his family as they witness Christopher Columbus' triumphant parade through the streets.

Explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. This book focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture in the production of the contemporary nation. It examines various discourses that have constituted the image of the ""Babi.

An anthology of writings that examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as ""I Remember Mama"" to the more recent ""Roseanne"".

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. It covers colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities

This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.

Telling the story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, the author gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. She demystifies contemporary Iran by taking readers beyond the stereotypes and into the lives of individuals.

Offers an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.

It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. This title explores the tension between dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition. It challenges the reader to re-examine notions of translation, bilingualism, and postcoloniality.

This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of ""The Mohawks in High Steel"" by Joseph Mitchell.

Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey.

Dealing with the relationship between psychiatry and the law, this book looks at the federal and state procedures which render impotent the constitutional right to a speedy and public trial. Trial transcripts are used to support the author's arguments.

A rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II.

A groundbreaking study exploring the use of metaphors and images of place in literature. Drawing comparisons over a wide range of works, principally American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lutwack illustrates how writers have charged different environments with symbolic and psychological meaning.