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| 81. |  | Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity Author: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Christianity | Classical Religions | History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identity Author: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Education | Anthropology | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: Women writing culture Author: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of wom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria  Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Medieval History Publisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: The wood duck and the mandarin: the northern wood ducks Author: Shurtleff, Lawton L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Zoology | Environmental Studies | Biology Publisher's Description: This is a story of conservation told through the natural histories of two of the world's most fascinating birds, the Wood Duck of North America and the Mandarin of Asia. The only two species in their genus ( Aix ), these Northern Wood Ducks are native to different continents but have long been kept . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | 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 |
| 87. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: Workin' man blues: country music in California Author: Haslam, Gerald W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | California and the West Publisher's Description: California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: Working families: the transformation of the American home Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift - the rise of dual-income families - this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: Working hard and making do: surviving in small town America Author: Nelson, Margaret K 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged emp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Working people of California Author: Cornford, Daniel A 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | California and the West | Labor Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: Working-class heroes: protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood Author: Kefalas, Maria Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office worker . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: The worth of a child Author: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century music Author: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music | Music Publisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Medieval History | European History Publisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicine Author: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: Writing the character-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: "We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: Writing tricksters: mythic gambols in American ethnic literature Author: Smith, Jeanne Rosier 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | Asian Literature | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's . . . [more] Similar Items |