Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.

Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.

Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization.

Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.

Exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.

An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.

Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.

Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.

Explores the interdisciplinary dimensions of black studies.

An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.

Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.

Reads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy.

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

A history and social psychology of punk music.

Explores the political and economic causes and consequences of homelessness.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

A fascinating look at fans of a variety of popular culture phenomena in Japan.