University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Politics Over Process
Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Although the U.S. Constitution requires that the House of Representatives and the Senate pass legislation in identical form before it can be sent to the president for final approval, the process of resolving differences between the chambers has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Hong...
Financing Medicaid
Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Conventional wisdom holds that programs for the poor are vulnerable to instability and retrenchment. Medicaid, however, has grown into the nation’s largest intergovernmental grant program, accounting for nearly half of all federal funding to state and local governments. Medicaid’s generous open-ended...
The Supreme Court and the NCAA
The Case for Less Commercialism and More Due Process in College Sports
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Two Supreme Court decisions, NCAA v. Board of Regents (1984) and NCAA v. Tarkanian (1988), shaped college sports by permitting the emergence of a commercial enterprise with high financial stakes, while failing to guarantee adequate procedural protections for persons charged with wrongdoing within...
Gendered Vulnerability
How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections—a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term “gendered vulnerability.”...
by Jill Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Feminist Spectator as Criticbroke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has been foundational in theater...
The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."
--In These Times
"Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further...
Show Me Your Environment
Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations...
The Immaterial Book
Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie...
by Marilyn Krysl
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Yes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl’s essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry’s collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry’s profound spiritual and...
Hybrid Justice
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Since 2006, the United Nations and Cambodian Government have participated in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a hybrid tribunal created to try key Khmer Rouge officials for crimes of the Pol Pot era. In Hybrid Justice, John D. Ciorciari and Anne Heindel examine the contentious...
The Jazz Republic
Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German...
The Earliest Romans
A Character Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The ancient Romans' story down to 264 B.C. can be made credible by stripping away their later myths and inventions to show how their national character shaped their destiny.
After many generations of scholarly study, consensus is clear: the account in writers like Livy is not to be trusted...
No Boundaries
Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
“Tom Diaz has worn out some shoe leather, much like a good detective, in gathering facts, not myths or urban legends. As a result he has produced an accurate and comprehensive look at a grave and present danger to our society.”
—From the Foreword by Chris Swecker, former Assistant Director of...
Academic Ableism
Disability and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay...