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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class, and race relations Author: Jackman, Mary R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Mary Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The longest night: polemics and perspectives on election 2000 Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Social and Political Thought \| Law Publisher's Description: The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legit . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Natural History Publisher's Description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on the impact that conservation in these areas had on rural people, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vanishing points: Dickens, narrative, and the subject of omniscience Author: Jaffe, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In traditional narrative theory, the term "omniscience" refers to a narrator's absolute knowledge and authority. Narrative theory provides no social, historical, or psychological context for omniscience, nor does it attempt to explain the predominance of omniscient narration in nineteenth-century Br . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ambiguous angels: gender in the novels of Galdós Author: Jagoe, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, argui . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Buddhism \| South Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy Author: Jamner, Margaret Schneider Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Medicine \| Public Policy \| Anthropology \| Aging \| Education Publisher's Description: This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: In our own hands: a strategy for conserving California's biological diversity Author: Jensen, Deborah B Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Public Policy \| California and the West Publisher's Description: "Biodiversity." As argument over environmental and conservation policy grows more heated in California and throughout the nation, the term has become a buzzword. But what does biodiversity really mean? What really threatens it? Why should we care? In Our Own Hands offers a readable, scientifically s . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| South Asia \| Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychology \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| Women's Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speaking the unspeakable: religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth) 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Literature \| Gender Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Psychology Publisher's Description: In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortalit . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ecology \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Literature Publisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Sociology \| Politics \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items

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