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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: What is sexual harassment?: from Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne Author: Saguy, Abigail Cope 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European Studies | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United Sta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | Title: Sexual selections: what we can and can't learn about sex from animals Author: Zuk, M. (Marlene) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Cultural Anthropology | Evolution | Gender Studies | Animal Behavior | Sociology | Biology Publisher's Description: Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectives Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The sexual education of Edith Wharton  Author: Erlich, Gloria C Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution - from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Classics | Art and Architecture | Art History | History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question - and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Author: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | Men and Masculinity | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Cultural Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | Theatre | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | 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 |