Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment forges links between an author whose work belongs to a well known body of indigenous literature, N
Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and hum
This book explores the historical rise of free society in the West, especially its relation to the religious world view that inspired the quest for individual freedom. It further examines the threats
This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of literary tourism’s role in shaping how locations in the British and Irish Isles have been seen, narrated, and valued. It explores the consequence
This book revisits Erich Auerbach’s Istanbul writings as pioneering works of contemporary literary history and cultural criticism. It interprets these writings, which center around Western liter
The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) l
This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of c
This book examines the thought of German international relations scholar Ludwig Dehio and his insight into the dynamics of hegemonic conflicts. It analyzes the various attempts to conquer the European
Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Cancer, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength analyzes information collected from focus groups and personal interviews in order to investigate
This book explores the intersection of religion and monstrosity. The first section contains fresh research on the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, and the second explores the topic of religion and
This collection provides a comprehensive examination of the growth of the Korean media and communications industry in recent decades. The contributors analyze such topics as the Korean Wave, newspaper
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy is a comprehensive collection, in four volumes, of the most important contributions by Ostrom and her colleagues on central issues. This t
Despite their shared history and the potential benefits of cooperation in the twenty-first century, a bilateral and multilateral relationship among Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean remains an
Aesthetics and Ideology of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot explores the correlation between the aesthetic and the ideological in Modernism, with special focus on Lawrence, Woolf and El
This book argues that literacy functions as a means of tracking social change in modern Mongolia. Its leaders have used literacy to promote new ways of living and socialist identities. In post-sociali
Bilingual and multicultural approaches to the study of literature and music give the most complete panorama of the problems related to understanding artistic ability and sensibility. Norbert Francis a
This book is focused on the native peoples of Central America. Robert Carmack examines their history, societies and cultures, and relates their many historical accomplishments to larger world history.
This book focuses on the pioneering collaborative work between Native women storytellers and women ethnographers/editors. In this review of the intersubjectively relational methodologies of these wome
This collection examines the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues and how they portrayed in the media. The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and
This volume explores the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in prehistoric, historic, and modern contexts. Case studies provide examples of the ways in which skeletal remains ca
In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted
Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic refo
There has been little examination of the China policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. Works dealing with the topic fall either into brief discussions in biographies of Roosevelt, general sur
This volume seeks to identify the interconnection of theory, methodology, and praxis concerning social science studies of African Americans in communication, film, and media.
Merchants and Ministers explores the relationship between businesspeople and clergy in the United States from the colonial period to the present. This book traces the contours of American history by p
This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of c
This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in today’s culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contribut
Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East examines the emergence of the global university in the Middle East and Asia, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of branch campuses and univer
Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-Creation engages with important themes such as power, language, subjectivity and the possibility of fully developed postmodern a
This book examines the thought of German international relations scholar Ludwig Dehio and his insight into the dynamics of hegemonic conflicts. It analyzes the various attempts to conquer the European
In this book, Lucy Jane Ward argues that although contemporary scholarship tends to divide Agnes Heller's work chronologically in terms of her “Marxist” and subsequent “post-Marxist” periods, a closer
Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of science is implicit in Max Weber’s reflections on scientific inquiry as a brid
This book integrates pragmatism and transcendental philosophy in examining the most serious problem defining the human condition, death and mortality. Its analysis of human limits and finitude is inte
Globalization, Gender, and Media tackles the emergence of “sexy violence” imagery and the coalescence of the sexual and violent meanings in contemporary global mainstream news, television, film, and s
As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humani
Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Cancer, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength is the culmination of an exploratory study that used autoethnography, focus groups, and personal
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in
Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans-and Quechua women i
The work adds to efforts underway from Feagin and Piven by challenging scholars to change the way we think about inequalities among ourselves, and to consider alternative ways to do sociology beyond r
Examining films, literature, songs, and photographs with an emphasis on a feminist materialist interpretation, Producing Culture considers the representations of different kinds of labor historically
