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According to Agarwal, bias is simply a neutral term for...
According to Agarwal, bias is simply a neutral term for prejudice, which is usually but not invariably a bad thing.
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their...
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning–across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time–from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts.
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild...
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West.
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment?...
Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses.
A challenging analysis of the arrogance and self-righteousness...
A challenging analysis of the arrogance and self-righteousness found in both secularism and the modern churches, showing how both have lost sight of the importance of the message at the heart of Christianity.
Offering an original rehabilitation of the temptation of...
Offering an original rehabilitation of the temptation of spiritual trial, this book strives for a renewed theological hermeneutic which speaks to the enduring human struggle to realise the unchanging love of God in the face of spiritual darkness.
Commonly referred to as “down-low” or...
Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain unaware of their same-sex desires, and in much of the media, DL men have been portrayed as carriers of HIV who spread the virus to black women.
A historical analysis demonstrating how early Meiji...
A historical analysis demonstrating how early Meiji women’s groups and their activities were interconnected and why these links were significant.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the...
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history.
The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad unfolds...
The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures.
Gyatso is among the first to consider Tibetan literature from a...
Gyatso is among the first to consider Tibetan literature from a comparative perspective, examining the surprising fit–as well as the misfit–of Western literary theory with Tibetan autobiography.
Anna Geifman examines the explosion of terrorist activity that...
Anna Geifman examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place in the Russian empire from the years just prior to the turn of the century through 1917, a period when over 17,000 people were killed or wounded by revolutionary extremists.
But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an...
But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse?
The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography,...
The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People’s Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur pornography on the web.
In the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United...
In the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare resources in America!
The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century...
The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating positive values such as honesty, hard work, independence, and cultural refinement. But clergy, educators, and community leaders also defined respectability negatively, by maligning individuals and groups–“misfits”–who deviated from accepted norms.
Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable...
Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret.
Could Bobbie’s train really have stopped in time...
Could Bobbie’s train really have stopped in time (‘The Railway Children’)? Did Beatrix Potter have the 'flu in 1909, and did this lead to a certain darkness in her work..?
The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of...
The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.
Although largely forgotten now, the 1885 trial of German artist...
Although largely forgotten now, the 1885 trial of German artist Gustav Graef was a seminal event for those who observed it. Graef, a celebrated sixty-four-year-old portraitist, was accused of perjury and sexual impropriety with underage models.Also of interest: