Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little sustained attention. Central to Figuring Age is the crucial question of how women are aged by culture. How are older women represented in a visual culture that is dominated by images of youth in television, film, and life performance? How do psychoanalysis, rejuvenation therapy and hormone replacement therapy, the fashion system, cosmetic surgery, and...
Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meani...
Biotechnology and Culture Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics Edited by Paul Brodwin
Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies "A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." --Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley
"This impressive collection offers a number of rich examples of why the development of anthropological studies of science, technology, and their disruptive social effects is a leading edge of critical enquiry." --Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
As birth, illness, and...
Biotechnology and Culture Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics Edited by Paul Brodwin
Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies ...
Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors--historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies--examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics such as pet cloning, fox hunting, animatronic characters, and how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.
Representing Animals demonstrates the deep connections between the way we think about animals and the...
Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contr...
Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have given most of their attnetion to the problems of the Third World. The authors of this pioneering work study a part of Europe neglected by both approaches. Modernizing patterns in Balkan economic history are traced from the sixteenth century (when the territory was shared by Ottoman and Habsburg empires), through the nineteenth century (when they emerged as independent states), to the end of World War II and its aftermath. Despite present...
Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have ...
How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These are some of the questions that Henry Tsai deals with in this important new book. He treats the nineteenth-century immigration experience, the development of early Chinese communities, American exclusion and the difficulties of living in the shadow of exclusion, and the Chinese community in the post-World War II era and today. Also covered are Chinese women in conemporary American society, the problems with children and youth in a multiracial...
How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? Thes...
"This beautifully written, serious work is of value to all who are interested in our country's Russia's] past." --Genrikh Ioffe, Moscow News
"This is a serious and mature book on a key event... "--History
"The book in question is of exceptional value to anyone who cannot read Russian and wishes to know just what happened in the first months of 1917." --Scottish Slavonic Review
..". a classic of Soviet historical writing." --Problems of Communism
Capturing the drama and human side of the revolution, Burdzhalov's comprehensive and meticulously researched history of...
"This beautifully written, serious work is of value to all who are interested in our country's Russia's] past." --Genrikh Ioffe, Moscow News
