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.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

Shows the full breadth and scope of Edward Said's work and of his role as a public intellectual.

Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.

Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

An investigation into the complex processes of "becoming a girl."

Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative.

Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing.

Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.