Lexington Books: 3858 books
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China
Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history...
Flora White
In the Vanguard of Gender Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Flora White: In the Vanguard of Gender Equity draws on a collection of personal papers (only recently made available to scholars) to present the life of a colorful New England educator who lived from the Civil War to the Cold War. Throughout her career, White worked to promote the physical and intellectual...
The Embodiment of Disobedience
Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the...
by Mark Moss
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Mark Moss's The Media and the Models of Masculinity details the impact that the mass media has upon men's sense of identity, style, and deportment. From advertising to television shows, mass consumer culture defines and identifies how men select and sort what is fashionable and acceptable. Utilizing...
Finding Fogerty
Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America’s great songwriters, one of the rock era’s great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and...
by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...
by Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The Poetics of Radical Hope: The Abderrhamane Sissako Experience communicates pieces of evidence that Sissako is the most talented and the most sophisticated filmmaker of his generation. This imaginative excellence emanates from new aspirations to fashion an original African cinematic aesthetic for...
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Dante and His Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy...
The Culture of Fengshui in Korea
An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2006
The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water,' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as 'geomancy,' and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and...
by Karla Hartl, Jindri?ka Bártová, Michael Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list...
Reading Japan Cool
Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga—Japanese comics—which since the mid-1940s...
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Nature, Gender, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position...
Casting Masculinity in Spanish Film
Negotiating Identity in a Consumer Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The rise of consumerism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries radically changed the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. And, as it has throughout history, the social construct of “ideal” masculinity both reflects and responds to that lived reality, helping individuals adapt....
Unbecoming Female Monsters
Witches, Vampires, and Virgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book examines the female sexual maturation cycle and the...