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New Jersey Fan Club
Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State (Paperback or Softback)
by Kerri Sullivan, Frankie Huang, Erinn Salge, Alex Flannery, Haley Simone, Jonathan Conner, Emily Thompson, Joy Velasco, Kasey Bohnert, Julie Benbassat, Sean Rynkewicz, Mikhaila Leid, Veronica Casson, Dan Misdea, Kristen Broderick, Tori Wehringer, Katie Reynolds, Kate Watt, Tim Kauger, Brian Scully, Jaclyn Sovern, Donovan Myers, Dan Schenker, Christopher Smith, Matthew Taub, Brandon Harrison, Mike Dawson, Wills Kinsley, Poo Makhijani, Chris Gethard, Kate Morgan, Kamelia Ani, Brittany Coppla, Jacqui Sinclair
Paperback, 317 Pages, Published 2022 by Rutgers University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-978825-60-4, ISBN: 1-978825-60-9

"It's an evergreen tribute to the state and an exploration of how the same place can shape people in different ways. This book is not meant to be a travel guide. You won't find any lists of the state's top breweries or best small towns here."






Becoming Mexipino
Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)
by Rutgers University Press, Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. Rudy Guevarra
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5283-5, ISBN: 0-8135-5283-4

""Becoming Mexipino" is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and cultural bonds laid the foundation for what would become close interethnic relationships and communities in twentieth-century San Diego as wel ..."






Madame Butterfly and a Japanese Nightingale
Two Orientalist Texts
by Maureen Honey, John Luther Long, Jean Lee Cole, Winnifred Eaton, Onoto Watanna, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3063-5, ISBN: 0-8135-3063-6

"Madame Butterfly (1898) and A Japanese Nightingale (1901) both appeared at the height of American fascination with Japanese culture. These two novellas are paired here together for the first time to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the "Orient." This is the first reprinting of A Japanese Nightingale since its 1901 appearance, when it propelled Winnifred Eaton (using the pseudonym Onoto Watanna) to fame. ..."






Design and Feminism
Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things
by Joan Rothschild, Editor-Alethea Cheng, Paola Antonelli, Editor-Maggie Mehboubian, Editor-Etain Fitzpatrick, Editor-Francine Monaco, Editor-Victoria Rosner, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1999 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2667-6, ISBN: 0-8135-2667-1

"How well do our designed environments- the places and spaces where we live, work, and play- meet our aesthetic and functional needs? Increasingly, the distinction between the spaces considered public and private or work and home is becoming more blurred. As a result, innovative designs are needed to meet the challenges of our ever-changing environment. Our streets, parks, dwellings and tools are designed to a "one-size-fits-all" s ..."






Defining Russian Graphic Arts(1st Edition)
From Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934
by Alla Rosenfeld, Ekaterina Grishina, Edward Kasinec, Janet Kennedy, Nina Gurianova, E. V. Barkhatova, E. N. Litovchenko, E. A. Pliusnina, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2604-1, ISBN: 0-8135-2604-3

"This volume explores the energy and innovation of Russian graphic arts during the period which began with the artistic creativity initiated by Serge Diaghilev at the end of the 19th century and which ended in the mid-1930s with Stalin's contol over the arts. It is a companion volume to the exhibition "Defining Russian Graphic Arts: From Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934" to appear at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University ..."






'Yellow Woman'
Leslie Marmon Silko (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)
by Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich, Rutgers University Press, Signed Graulich
Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1993 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2005-6, ISBN: 0-8135-2005-3

" In the past twenty-five years many Native American writers have retold the traditional stories of powerful mythological women: Corn Woman, Changing Woman, Serpent Woman, and Thought Woman, who with her sisters created all life by thinking it into being.  Within and in response to these evolving traditions, Leslie Marmon Silko takes from her own tradition, the Keres of Laguna, the Yellow Woman.  Yellow Woman stories, always female-cente ..."






Queer Newark
Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community [Soft Cover ]
by Whitney Strub
Paperback, Published 2024 by Rutgers Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-978829-21-3, ISBN: 1-978829-21-3






Reflections on the Pandemic
Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed (Paperback or Softback)
by Teresa Politano, Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Kimberly Camp
Paperback, Published 2024 by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick Nj
ISBN-13: 978-1-978831-09-4, ISBN: 1-978831-09-9






Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
A Black Feminist Anthology
by Rutgers University Press
Published by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978838-99-4, ISBN: 1-978838-99-9






Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folkl=ricos de las monta±as de Puerto Rico
by Rutgers University Press
Published by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978822-98-6, ISBN: 1-978822-98-7






Girlhood
A Global History (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
by Professor Jennifer Helgren, Colleen A. . Vasconcellos, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Professor Christine Cheater, Professor Corrie Decker, Professor Lenie Brouwer, Professor Colleen Vasconcellos, Professor S. Duff, Professor Jessamy Harvey, Professor Jesse Hingson, Professor Krista Jones, Professor Melissa Klapper, Professor Ann Kordas, Professor Liat Kozma, Professor Fran Martin, Professor Lisa Ossian, Professor Kathryn Sloan, Professor Marion Den Uyl, Professor E. Thomas Ewing, Professor Nancy Stockdale, Professor Jan Voogd, Professor Peter Wien, Professor Patricia Sloane-White, Myra Bluebond-Langner, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4704-6, ISBN: 0-8135-4704-0

"Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region - girls on all c ..."






The War Film(Updated)
(Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
by Robert T. Eberwein, Professor Andrew Kelly, Professor Jeanine Basinger, Professor Robert Burgoyne, Professor Michael Rogin, Professor Brian Woodman, Professor Guerric Debona, Professor Tania Modleski, Professor Yvonne Tasker, Professor Mimi White, Professor Albert Auster, Professor Thomas Doherty, Dana Polan, Susan Jeffords, Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3497-8, ISBN: 0-8135-3497-6

"War has had a powerful impact on the film industry. But it is not only wars that affect films; films influence war-time behavior and incisively shape the way we think about the battles that have been waged. In "The War Film," Robert Eberwein brings together essays by scholars using a variety of critical approaches to explore this enduringly popular film genre. Contributors examine the narrative and aesthetic elements of war films from f ..."






Crafting a Legacy(1st Edition)
Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Suzanne Ramljak, Darrel Sewell
Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 2002 by Philadelphia Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-87633-162-0, ISBN: 0-87633-162-2






Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body
Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews, Joshua I. Newman, Holly Thorpe, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S. Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C. Darnell, Samantha Frost, Simone Fullagar, Pirkko Markula, Mary G. Mcdonald, Jennifer Sterling, Christopher Mcleod, Matthew G. Hawzen, Richard Pringle, Oliver Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, Samantha King, Shannon Leigh Jette, Katelyn Esmonde, Carolyn Pluim, Gavin Weedon, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2020 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9181-0, ISBN: 0-8135-9181-3

"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."






Ming from the Field
The Impact of Mhood on Site-Based Research
by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Melanie-Angela Neuilly, Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Lindsey Alyssa Marco, Stacey Camp, Kelley Sams, Lydia Zacher Dixon, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Muntaquim Muhammad, Grace Karram Stephenson, John M. Stephenson, Joanne Florence Karram, Brian C. Wolf, Anne Hardgrove, Kimberly Garland-Campbell, Sarah Kelman, Marylynn Steckley, Deirdre Guthrie, Aprille Ericsson, Arielle Ericsson White, Dawn Ericsson-Provine, Mikae Provine, Pierre Ericsson, Ryanne Pilgeram, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978800-57-1, ISBN: 1-978800-57-6

"The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare ..."






Unwatchable
by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright, Alex Bush, Alec Butler, Noel Carroll, Mel Chen, Jonathan Crary, Samuel England, Mattias Frey, Peter Geimer, Boris Groys, Frances Guerin, Jack Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, Julian Hanich, Stefano Harney, J. Hoberman, Lynne Joyrich, Alexandra Juhasz, Nathan Lee, Akira Lippit, Jennifer Malkowski, Brandy Monk-Payton, Erika Balsom, Asbjørn Grønstad, Katariina Kyrölä, Abigail De Kosnik, Michael Boyce Gillespie, E. Ann Kaplan, Fred Moten, Professor B. Ruby Rich, Jan Olsson, Danielle Peers, Raul Perez, Mauro Resmini, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rebecca Schneider, Jeffrey Sconce, Jared Sexton, Philipp Stiasny, Meghan Sutherland, Bennet Togler, Leshu Torchin, Alok Vaid-Menon, Christophe Wall-Romana, Meir Wigoder, Emily Wills, Federico Windhausen, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Genevieve Yue, Alenka Zupancic, Poulomi Saha, Vivian Sobchack, Professor Bill Nichols, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Gunnar And Iversen, Asbjrn Grnstad, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 412 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9958-8, ISBN: 0-8135-9958-X

"We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inacc ..."






Ming from the Field
The Impact of Mhood on Site-Based Research
by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Melanie-Angela Neuilly, Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Lindsey Alyssa Marco, Stacey Camp, Kelley Sams, Lydia Zacher Dixon, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Muntaquim Muhammad, Grace Karram Stephenson, John M. Stephenson, Joanne Florence Karram, Brian C. Wolf, Anne Hardgrove, Kimberly Garland-Campbell, Sarah Kelman, Marylynn Steckley, Deirdre Guthrie, Aprille Ericsson, Arielle Ericsson White, Dawn Ericsson-Provine, Mikae Provine, Pierre Ericsson, Ryanne Pilgeram, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978800-56-4, ISBN: 1-978800-56-8

"The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare ..."






Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
by Ruth Mayer, Alice Maurice, Ellen C. Scott, Jonna Eagle, Ryan Jay Friedman, Charlene Regester, Matthias Konzett, Chris Cagle, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Graham Cassano, Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Mary Beltrán, Jun Okada, Louise Wallenberg, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9931-1, ISBN: 0-8135-9931-8

"Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standa ..."






A Mayor for All the People
Kenneth Gibson's Newark
by Robert C. Holmes, Richard W. Roper, Bonnie Coleman, David Dinkins, Sheila Oliver, Fred Means, Barbara Kukla, Martin Bierbaum, Sharpe James, Ronald Rice, Fran Adubato, Sheldon Bross, Elizabeth Del Tufo, Robert Pickett, Marie Villani, Steve Adubato, Harold Hodes, William Payne, Grizel Ubarry, Deforest B. Soaries, Junius Williams, Elton Hill, Harold Gibson, Camille Savocca Gibson, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 354 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9876-5, ISBN: 0-8135-9876-1

"In 1970, Kenneth Gibson was elected as Newark, New Jersey’s first African-American mayor, a position he held for an impressive sixteen years. Yet even as Gibson served as a trailblazer for black politicians, he presided over a troubled time in the city’s history, as Newark’s industries declined and its crime and unemployment rates soared.   This book offers a balanced assessment of Gibson’s leadership and his legacy, from the perspectiv ..."






Unwatchable
by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen, Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright, Alex Bush, Alec Butler, Noel Carroll, Mel Chen, Jonathan Crary, Abigail De Kosnik, Samuel England, Mattias Frey, Peter Geimer, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Boris Groys, Frances Guerin, Jack Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, Julian Hanich, Stefano Harney, J. Hoberman, Lynne Joyrich, Alexandra Juhasz, E. Ann Kaplan, Nathan Lee, Akira Lippit, Jennifer Malkowski, Brandy Monk-Payton, Fred Moten, Professor B. Ruby Rich, Jan Olsson, Danielle Peers, Raul Perez, Mauro Resmini, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rebecca Schneider, Jeffrey Sconce, Jared Sexton, Philipp Stiasny, Meghan Sutherland, Bennet Togler, Leshu Torchin, Alok Vaid-Menon, Christophe Wall-Romana, Meir Wigoder, Emily Wills, Federico Windhausen, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Genevieve Yue, Alenka Zupancic, Poulomi Saha, Vivian Sobchack, Professor Bill Nichols, Asbjørn Grønstad, Katariina Kyrölä, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Asbjrn Grnstad, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 412 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9959-5, ISBN: 0-8135-9959-8

"We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inacc ..."



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