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101.	Requires cookie*	Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Economics and Business \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items
102.	Requires cookie*	Title: Monster/beauty: building the body of love Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performa . . . [more] Similar Items
103.	Requires cookie*	Title: Montaigne's unruly brood: textual engendering and the challenge to paternal authority Author: Regosin, Richard L 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional fi . . . [more] Similar Items
104.	Requires cookie*	Title: The moon and the zither: the story of the western wing Author: Wang, Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| China \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play ha . . . [more] Similar Items
105.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items
106.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moral vision in the Histories of Polybius Author: Eckstein, Arthur M Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Classical Politics \| Political Theory \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even "Machiavellian" one. Polybius particularly asks for "impro . . . [more] Similar Items
107.	Requires cookie*	Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items
108.	Requires cookie*	Title: More equal than others: women and men in dual-career marriages Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems Similar Items
109.	Requires cookie*	Title: More than night: film noir in its contexts Author: Naremore, James Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Literature Publisher's Description: "Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. In More Than Night , James Naremore discusses these pictures, but he also shows that the central term is more compl . . . [more] Similar Items
110.	Requires cookie*	Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold War Author: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Politics Publisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more] Similar Items
111.	Requires cookie*	Title: The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identity Author: Banet-Weiser, Sarah 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contempo . . . [more] Similar Items
112.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| American Literature \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more] Similar Items
113.	Requires cookie*	Title: Movies as politics Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological ident . . . [more] Similar Items
114.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items
115.	Requires cookie*	Title: Murder in New York City Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| Psychology \| Criminology \| United States History Publisher's Description: Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other do . . . [more] Similar Items
116.	Requires cookie*	Title: Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| European History \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms wi . . . [more] Similar Items
117.	Requires cookie*	Title: Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 Author: Everist, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Opera \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to t . . . [more] Similar Items
118.	Requires cookie*	Title: Music in other words: Victorian conversations Ruth A. Solie Author: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| Classical Music \| Musicology \| Women's Studies \| Victorian History Publisher's Description: Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as journalism . . . [more] Similar Items
119.	Requires cookie*	Title: Musical meaning: toward a critical history Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music \| Musicology Publisher's Description: Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues that humanistic, . . . [more] Similar Items
120.	Requires cookie*	Title: Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarship Author: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most . . . [more] Similar Items

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