Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth.

Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the depths of terror, flirting with disaster only to end with a profound sense of relief at what medical discourse calls a "good outcome." Others represent pain, make counterclaims on reproductive technologies, and suggest complex associations between maternity, sexuality, and body politics in the...

Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by enabling people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory.

Papers featured in this issue offer an in-depth examination of the interaction of ethnicity, identity and multiculturalism with contemporary culture.

A collection of essays on the topical and familiar: the future of reggae and the legend of Bob Marley; community and the public body in breast cancer media activism, and the redefinition of the Louvre are among the subjects discussed.

A special issue of the established journal 'Cultural Studies', devoted to the study of culture in scientific and technological systems.

This special issue looks at the increasing presence of Cultural Studies as a discipline within academia. The debate about it's relevance still rages and is commented on in these pages. A must for all students and graduates in the field.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central concerns are performative aspects of oral history itself and the theatrical or classroom "re-performance" of oral history. The essays detail classroom and public pedagogies, community-based interventions, processes of developing interview-based performances, and the ethical and political implications...