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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The consumer revolution in urban China Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| China \| Urban Studies \| Consumerism Publisher's Description: After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism Author: Illouz, Eva 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry Author: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Gender Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France Author: Tiersten, Lisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies \| European History \| Consumerism \| French Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Gender Studies \| European History Publisher'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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Assembled in Japan: electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer Author: Partner, Simon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Media Studies \| Technology and Society \| Consumerism Publisher's Description: Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies wa . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies \| History \| Media Studies \| Women's Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform - focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio - Kathy M. Newman a . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| African American Studies \| United States History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| California and the West \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Sociology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century Author: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Social Problems \| Public Policy \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy Author: James, Sharon L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature \| Poetry \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed - . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Notes on love in a Tamil family Author: Trawick, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| African American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Honky Author: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| African American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items