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161. | | Title: Reds or rackets?: the making of radical and conservative unions on the waterfront Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | United States History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or . . . [more]Similar Items | 162. | | Title: The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identityAuthor: Banet-Weiser, Sarah 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contempo . . . [more]Similar Items | 163. | | Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Medicine | History | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more]Similar Items | 164. | | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI filesAuthor: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | LawPublisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more]Similar Items | 165. | | Title: Rainbow's end: Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985Author: Erie, Steven P Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociolog . . . [more]Similar Items | 166. | | Title: Flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgeryAuthor: Blum, Virginia L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Film | Psychology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Sociology | Anthropology | Television and Radio | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu . . . [more]Similar Items | 167. | | Title: Claims to fame: celebrity in contemporary AmericaAuthor: Gamson, Joshua 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the . . . [more]Similar Items | 168. | | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and IslamAuthor: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more]Similar Items | 169. | | Title: The festive state: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performanceAuthor: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a col . . . [more]Similar Items | 170. | | Title: Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965Author: Boyd, Nan Alamilla 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Sociology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant mili . . . [more]Similar Items | 171. | | Title: Lost lullabyAuthor: Alecson, Deborah Golden 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Medicine | Ethics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Lost Lullaby makes one think the unthinkable: how a loving parent can pray for the death of her child. It is Deborah Alecson's story of her daughter, Andrea, who was born after a full-term, uneventful pregnancy, weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces, perfectly formed and exquisitely featured. But an inexplica . . . [more]Similar Items | 172. | | Title: The politics of duplicity: controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's RomaniaAuthor: Kligman, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarmi . . . [more]Similar Items | 173. | | Title: Protectors of privilege: red squads and police repression in urban AmericaAuthor: Donner, Frank J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Urban Studies | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelp . . . [more]Similar Items | 174. | | Title: Cultures in conflict: social movements and the state in PeruAuthor: Stokes, Susan Carol Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Anthropology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the pop . . . [more]Similar Items | 175. | | Title: Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of formAuthor: Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Urban Studies | Economics and Business | Social Science | Architecture | SociologyPublisher's Description: The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown . . . [more]Similar Items | 176. | | Title: Strategies for learning: small-group activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish industry Author: Cole, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Japan | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: How do firms become motivated to adopt small-group activities such as quality circles and self-managing teams? How do they acquire expertise in these activities? Noted sociologist and management expert Robert E. Cole addresses these issues through an examination of small-group activities in the Unit . . . [more]Similar Items | 177. | | Title: Big money crime: fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisisAuthor: Calavita, Kitty Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Economics and Business | CriminologyPublisher's Description: At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received . . . [more]Similar Items | 178. | | Title: Gender differences at work: women and men in nontraditional occupationsAuthor: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are ent . . . [more]Similar Items | 179. | | Title: The language warAuthor: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Sociology | Literature | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political corr . . . [more]Similar Items | 180. | | Title: Random violence: how we talk about new crimes and new victimsAuthor: Best, Joel Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Law | CriminologyPublisher's Description: Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime . . . [more]Similar Items |
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