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A collection on modern print culture, this work talks about women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others. It presents a picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the disciplines in the context of healthcare system. Each chapter in this book is followed by an essay that highlights issues useful for scholarly research and classroom discussion.

Explores the implications of sex-for-pay from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. The essays in this volume reflect the difficulty of answering the question of whether temple prostitution existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.

A collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the African American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. This edition includes scholarly articles, Dunham's essays on dance and anthropology, press reviews, interviews, and chapters from Dunham's unpublished volume of memoirs, ""Minefields"".

The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety resulting from the belief that they were living in an age of decline. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death both by metaphysical and physical means. They intertwined their mystical erotic discourse with European degeneration theory and its obsession with the destabilization of gender. In Erotic Utopia, Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desire underlay their most radical utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence.2006 Winner, CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles, Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association"Offers a fresh perspective and a wealth of new information on early Russian modernism. . . . It is required reading for anyone interested in fin-de-siècle Russia and in the history of sexuality in general."--Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Slavic and East European Journal "Thoroughly entertaining."--Avril Pyman, Slavic Review

Horace's later lyric poetry, ""Odes IV"", which focuses on praising Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, has often been treated more as propaganda than art. But, the author, here, examines the richly textured ambiguities of ""Odes IV"".

Lavinia is accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is also sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being. Then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator and finds the courage to act.

Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.

David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, examines the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men.

The simple idea - a day set aside to focus on protecting our natural environment - was the brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. This book presents the life of Nelson, a small-town boy who learned his values and progressive political principles at an early age, is woven through the political history of the twentieth century.

This work provides a detailed study of a phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia - the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity in the 1960s and in the 1980s, the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.

The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period prior to World War I when the emergence of mass electoral politics in Czarist Russia led to the consolidation of modern political parties. Using sources published in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian, Joshua D. Zimmerman has compiled a full-length English-language study of the relations between the two dominant progressive movements in Russian Poland. He examines the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), which sought social emancipation and equal civil rights for minority nationalities, including Jews, under a democratic Polish republic, and the Jewish Labor Bund, which declared that Jews were a nation distinct from Poles and Russians and advocated cultural autonomy. By 1905, the PPS abandoned its call for Jewish assimilation, and recognized Jews as a separate nationality. Zimmerman demonstrates persuasively that Polish history in Czarist Russia cannot be fully understood without studying the Jewish influence and that Jewish history was equally infused with the Polish influence.

Here, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him.

Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Juxtaposing them with Chicano rationalists and Mexican migrant writers, this text offers a challenge to this view and uncovers reactionary strains in the Beats' vision.

Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.

Kleinman utilizes the ethnographic methods of laboratory studies to integrate micro- and macrosociological perspectives. He also analyses the political economy of laboratory life to point to important policy problems that the privatizing patterns of contemporary biology raise for the public good.

This study of two writers examines the relationship between Kingsley Amis and his son, Martin. Through intertextual readings of their essays and novels, Gavin Keulks examines how the Amises' work negotiated the boundaries of their personal relationship while claiming territory in the literary debate between mimesis and modernist aesthetics.

Spinoza's Modernity is a major, original work of intellectual history that reassesses the philosophical project of Baruch Spinoza, uncovers his influence on later thinkers, and demonstrates how that crucial influence on Moses Mendelssohn, G. E. Lessing, and Heinrich Heine shaped the development of modern critical thought. Excommunicated by his Jewish community, Spinoza was a controversial figure in his lifetime and for centuries afterward. Willi Goetschel shows how Spinoza's philosophy was a direct challenge to the theological and metaphysical assumptions of modern European thought. He locates the driving force of this challenge in Spinoza's Jewishness, which is deeply inscribed in his philosophy and defines the radical nature of his modernity.

Analysing the impact of catastrophe on the lives and writings of five female writers, Miriam Fuchs shows that it is the uncertain present that dominates their writing. She looks at: Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawai'i; poet H.D.; art critic Anna Banti; novelist Grete Weil; and writer Isabel Allende.

In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts the challenges of his life. "Body, Remember" is a story about connection, a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man's search for the sources of identity and difference.

Reclaiming a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, this volume offers a critical study of four of his compact plays, later known as ""The Little Tragedies"". It examines their historical roots and connective themes, offers close readings and tracks the transformation of the works into other genres.

Despite the reality of the Israeli-Arab conflict and the seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, this book affirms the bonds between the communities. Rachel Brenner demonstrates that the literatures of both ethnic groups defy the ideologies that have obstructed dialogue between the two peoples.

Michael Klein explores the lines that define yet also blur the boundaries of sex, friendship and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire in its mystical variety: incest, falling in love, being a twin and anonymous sex.

These essays ask how those who survived the Holocaust can make clear what happened? They move past the idea that the Holocaust defies representation. They consider the ethical imperatives of Holocaust representation and the tension between history and memory.

This volume is designed to help the intermediate-level learner of Japanese build a technical vocabulary, reinforce understanding of frequently used grammatical patterns, improve reading comprehension and practise translating technical passages.

This is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman's imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in 19th-century Uruguay.

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume a range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era.

Chronicles the transformation of Perigord as development poses a challenge to its graceful way of life, and evokes the personal exuberance of starting over, even in mid-life. The authors offer a glimpse of a region little known to Americans - the Dordogne valley, its castles and prehistoric art, its walking trails and earthy cuisine, and more.

Jana Renee Friesova was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezin (Theresienstadt). Her memoir unfolds before us, the poignantly familiar picture of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships, worries with her companions over her looks, and falls in love.