Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market.
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape shifters, Native peoples of the missions of Spanish California, and African Americans in the postcivil rights era.
In Of Corn and Catholicism Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on peoples lives.
Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of colonial Spanish America, particularly in the missions established by the Jesuits in northwestern Mexico, central southern Chile, and the Gran Chaco.
On Our Own Terms contextualizes recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and an equally long and persistent tradition of Indigenous peoples engaging schools, funding, and policy on their own terms.
In Maricas Javier Fernndez-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.
San Franciscos reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I.
This volume highlights recent research on women's authorship in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic, intersecting memory studies, postcolonialism, and world literature.
How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome themAlthough the covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed.
Die Uberwindung gewaltsamer Konflikte und eine haufig damit einhergehende geschlechtsspezifische Pragung wurde in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung bisher nur selten in den Blick genommen.
In this book, originally published in 1973, the authors show just how wide-ranging and deep-rooted are the disadvantages of the Australian Aboriginal population.
Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across the fin-de-siecle and early twentieth century.
A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritualSentient Seas offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea.
This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women's studies.
In this book, originally published in 1973, the authors show just how wide-ranging and deep-rooted are the disadvantages of the Australian Aboriginal population.
This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a 'gendered' way of understanding translation by convincingly constructing a link between translation studies and the interdisciplinary field of women's studies.
This handbook bridges a research and praxis gap, with contributions from both scholars and scholar-practitioners, to form an overview of communication scholarship in African contexts.
Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across the fin-de-siecle and early twentieth century.
Originally published in 1948 this classic book by the feminist critic and poet Ruth Herschberger was one of an early wave of mid-century texts (along with Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex) that reframed the supposedly neutral world of science into a minefield of male-centered bias.
Originally published in 1948 this classic book by the feminist critic and poet Ruth Herschberger was one of an early wave of mid-century texts (along with Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex) that reframed the supposedly neutral world of science into a minefield of male-centered bias.
Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts undertakes a critical engagement with nearly fifty foundational terms and concepts that have shaped-and continue to shape-the field of Dalit Studies.
This handbook bridges a research and praxis gap, with contributions from both scholars and scholar-practitioners, to form an overview of communication scholarship in African contexts.
Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts undertakes a critical engagement with nearly fifty foundational terms and concepts that have shaped-and continue to shape-the field of Dalit Studies.
This book reimagines what art institutions might become through the lens of three permaculture design principles-observe and interact, obtain a yield, and use and value diversity.
The chapters in this volume investigate some of the most important urban upheavals in recent history through different political, social and cultural contexts.
This book offers a systematic analysis of the ideology and enduring influence of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel, the American-born leader and thinker who rose to become one of the most radical far-right figures ever to hold political power in Israel.
The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail, and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Holland's female characters and how they have been reshaped across half a century.
This book reimagines what art institutions might become through the lens of three permaculture design principles-observe and interact, obtain a yield, and use and value diversity.
Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the Global South and the Global North, this ground-breaking volume takes a critical, decolonial, and global southern approach to exploring colonial epistemologies and pedagogies surrounding textbook discourses and research.
Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives provides a perceptive and engaging overview of theories in child and adolescent psychology, uniquely combining traditional scientific perspectives with critical (postmodern) approaches.
This book offers a systematic analysis of the ideology and enduring influence of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel, the American-born leader and thinker who rose to become one of the most radical far-right figures ever to hold political power in Israel.
