This book offers the first comprehensive study of medieval and modern debates on the nature of touch – its objects, limits, and operations – from the mid thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
This book explores how Jewish American parents perceive the cultural responsiveness of autism support services provided through public education and clinical settings across the United States.
One of the most influential political texts in modern history, Manifesto of the Communist Party examines the forces shaping society, economics, and political change.
This volume explores the ways in which traditional Chinese wisdom can inform and enrich contemporary efforts to construct values that promote education and human development.
Anthologie des philosophes chiliens rassemble dix etudes de dix philosophes chiliens, qui ecrivent sur dix philosophes chiliens, exercice unique et audacieux.
The fourth volume of Aspects of Mongolian Buddhism presents a captivating exploration of the intricate relationship between humans and the environment.
A survey of the contemporary intersection between religion and violence In this second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence assembles an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to map the complex relationships between religion and violence.
Kirche bezieht sich auf Jesus Christus als ihren Grund und verkennt darin nur allzu oft, dass dieser auf prekare Weise leiblich existiert und Gemeinschaft gestiftet hat.
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of womens studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today.
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (19071996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession.
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Scarletts Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional characters flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women.
Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more.
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music.
When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tenniss Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity.
Through an analysis of womens reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state.
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph (17721836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity.
This book seeks to untangle the cosmological treatise on the relationship between the physical and spiritual universe found in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka, the work he considered to be his magnum opus but which was also largely ignored by scholars until it caught the attention of physicists, astronomers, and other scientists in the 1990s.
This volume explores the ways in which traditional Chinese wisdom can inform and enrich contemporary efforts to construct values that promote education and human development.
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
