"In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily…
by Nyong'o, Tavia, Munoz, Jose Esteban, Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano
"The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Na…
While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds, racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda elaborates on that finding, studyi…
A brief, impactful book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affect the concept of family today. This book focuses on the impact of economic systems and social class on the organization of family life.
"It focuses on the impact of economic systems and social class on the organization of family life. Because the most vital function of the family is the survival of its members, the author gives primacy to the economic system in structuring the broad parameters of family life; th…
From the publisher. Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received …
A comprehensive overview of the immigration and assimilation into America of European, Asian, and Latin American peoples from 1607 to 1999. The text has been expanded to incorporate research on women immigrants, the "new refugees", and the continuing asylum crisis of the 1990s.
"What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this vol…
