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| 1. |  | Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China Author: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Male colors: the construction of homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan Author: Leupp, Gary P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Asian Studies | Asian History Publisher's Description: Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class st . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy Author: James, Sharon L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed - . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism Author: Illouz, Eva 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: For love of the automobile: looking back into the history of our desires Author: Sachs, Wolfgang Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | European History | Technology and Society | German Studies Publisher's Description: In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the au . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The trauma of gender: a feminist theory of the English novel Author: Moglen, Helene 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | European Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature Publisher's Description: Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The politics of desire: Propertius IV Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Sociology Publisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Toward a simpler way of life: the arts & crafts architects of California Author: Winter, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Architecture | Architectural History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture - California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of Ameri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan Author: Allison, Anne 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Japan Publisher's Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Building a better race: gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom Author: Kline, Wendy 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | American Studies | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people Author: Roughgarden, Joan Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Anthropology | Evolution | Health Care | Social Problems | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social scie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Notes on love in a Tamil family Author: Trawick, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The private orations of Themistius Author: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Sex seen: the emergence of modern sexuality in America Author: Ullman, Sharon R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popul . . . [more] Similar Items |