UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Doctors within borders: profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan Author: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| China \| Asian History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cinderella dreams: the allure of the lavish wedding Author: Otnes, Cele Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Consumerism \| United States History Publisher's Description: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the m . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Body work: beauty and self-image in American culture Author: Gimlin, Debra L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional an . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passage Author: Grimes, Ronald L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opport . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Monster/beauty: building the body of love Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performa . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identity Author: Banet-Weiser, Sarah 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher'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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism Author: Chancer, Lynn S 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Women's Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmente . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The family romance of the French Revolution Author: Hunt, Lynn Avery Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Birth as an American rite of passage Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Medicine \| Gender Studies Publisher'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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power Author: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Public Policy \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of p . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing American divorce: from the revolutionary generation to the Victorians Author: Basch, Norma Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Law \| United States History \| Gender Studies \| Victorian History Publisher's Description: Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nat . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan Author: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico Author: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America Author: Prothero, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| American Studies \| United States History \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kenn . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Getting married in Korea: of gender, morality, and modernity Author: Kendall, Laurel Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Dance \| Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Similar Items