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| 1. |  | Title: Wordsworth and the cultivation of women  Author: Page, Judith W 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist accou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The poet's truth: a study of the poet in Virgil's Georgics Author: Perkell, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The controversy over Virgil's optimism or pessimism, which has long absorbed readers of his poetry, might fruitfully yield to a perspective which allows contradictions to stand unresolved, to constitute, in fact, the essence of his poems' meaning. So interpreted, the pervasive contradictions of the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: When a doctor hates a patient, and other chapters in a young physician's life Author: Peschel, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | Science Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies | Hinduism Publisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: A history of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition Author: Pinney, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Food and Cooking | United States History | American Studies | Wine Publisher's Description: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground dow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The erotic Whitman Author: Pollak, Vivian R Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Gender Studies | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Green thoughts, green shades: essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric Author: Post, Jonathan F. S 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Law and the order of culture Author: Post, Robert 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | United States History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Postcolonial Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Law and the Order of Culture is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning, addressing interpretive processes within the law as well as the social constitution of legal doctrine. Originally published in Representations , these essays are at the center of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The fourth estate and the Constitution: freedom of the press in America Author: Powe, L. A. Scot Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Law | Politics | American Studies | Media Studies Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Similar Items |