Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Possessed Women, Haunted States
Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing...
Opposite Poles
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined...
Beauty and Misogyny
Harmful cultural practices in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead...
Essays on Social Issues & How They Impact African Americans and Other People of Color
Law, Literature, and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Essays on Social Issues spans the gamut of social and political issues in law, literature and social work. It provides a diverse perspective on the practical implications of social policy, marginalization, and The Arts as it relates to people of color. Not only does this research consider traditional...
Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia
Breaking the Model Minority Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia: Breaking the Model Minority Myth discusses the unique cultural challenges that Asians face in U.S. academia. The issues facing Asians in academia are worthy of our attention for two major reasons: the numerical significance of Asians in U.S. academia and...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...
Multiracial Americans and Social Class
The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. Multiracial Americans and Social Class is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in...
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
Questions of Cultural Identity
SAGE Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 1996
Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can...
Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory
Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gender and contemporary consumer cultures in post-authoritarian Southern European societies.
The book sees a diverse group of international scholars from across the social...
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
The Digital Condition
Class and Culture in the Information Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has...