Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.

Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.

Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.