This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in Western countries within predominantly Protestant or secular cultures–transform and adapt themselves in Israel. The volume focuses on a variety of […]
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Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre
From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” […]
Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930 – 1955
In this oral history of the Tejana cantantes who performed and owned businesses in the Texas Triangle, Listening to Rosita shows how ethnic Mexican entrepreneurs developed a unique identity in striving for success in a society that demeaned and segregated them. In telling their story, this book supplies a critical chapter long missing from the history of the West. […]
Consuming Behaviors: Identity, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain
In twentieth-century Britain, consumerism increasingly defined and redefined individual and social identities. New types of consumers emerged: the idealized working-class consumer, the African consumer and the teenager challenged the prominent position of the middle and upper-class female shopper. Linking politics and pleasure, Consuming Behaviours explores how individual consumers and groups reacted to changes in marketing, government control, […]
Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the […]
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court’s ruling
Originally published in 2010, the second edition of this documentary history by Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse is now available. As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, it is crucial to understand the political context of both the decision in Roe v Wade and its aftermath. The documents in this […]