Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women s depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime.The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of others. Contributors attempt to recover the black female...

(Applause Libretto Library). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and...

This book is written primarily for diving and §hyperbaric physicians in the hope of improving §access to the best clinical evidence in our field. §HBOT is a poorly understood therapeutic modality and §remains on the fringe of accepted medical practice §despite 50 years of clinical experience. One §criticism made of this field is that treatment is §based on little or no good clinical evidence. The §aims of this book are to collate all the available §randomised evidence, with a standard critical §appraisal of each individual paper using accepted §evidence-based principles, and to...