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21. | | Title: Birth as an American rite of passageAuthor: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensely technolog . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identityAuthor: Dawson, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Judaism | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New. John David Dawson analyzes the practice and theory of "figural" reading in the Chr . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | HistoryPublisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Haiti, history, and the godsAuthor: Dayan, Joan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction a . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: The Sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspectiveAuthor: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identiti . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: La lucha for Cuba: religion and politics on the streets of Miami Author: De La Torre, Miguel A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Latino Studies | Politics | ChristianityPublisher's Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar FranceAuthor: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct t . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: With broadax and firebrand: the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forestAuthor: Dean, Warren Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Latin American Studies | Natural HistoryPublisher's Description: Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the wo . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Solidarity of strangers: feminism after identity politics Author: Dean, Jodi 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Strategic bankruptcy: how corporations and creditors use Chapter 11 to their advantageAuthor: Delaney, Kevin J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In 1982 Johns-Manville, a major asbestos manufacturer, declares itself insolvent to avoid paying claims resulting from exposure to its products. A year later, Continental Airlines, one of the top ten carriers in the United States, claims a deficit when the union resists plans to cut labor costs. Lat . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: The naked text: Chaucer's Legend of good women Author: Delany, Sheila Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | English Literature | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame , Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Beethoven and the construction of genius: musical politics in Vienna, 1792-1803Author: DeNora, Tia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | History | Sociology | Composers | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: The lure of the edge: scientific passions, religious beliefs, and the pursuit of UFOsAuthor: Denzler, Brenda 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Science | SociologyPublisher's Description: UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hosti . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary FranceAuthor: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo BuddhistsAuthor: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | AgingPublisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: The maiden of Ludmir: a Jewish holy woman and her worldAuthor: Deutsch, Nathaniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Women's Studies | European History | Judaism | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows t . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican pastAuthor: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: California progressivism revisitedAuthor: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: California was perhaps the most important locus for the development of the Progressive reform movement in the decades of the twentieth century. These twelve original essays represent the best of the new scholarship on California Progressivism. Ranging across a spectrum that embraces ethnicity, gende . . . [more]Similar Items |
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