Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.

Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

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.