AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Black Performance Theory edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez (Duke University Press; 296 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Interdisciplinary essays on such topics as the choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson, black playwrights’ depiction of lynching, and the global reach of hip-hop politics.
ANTHROPOLOGY
The “Bare Life” of Thai Migrant Workmen in Singapore by Pattana Kitiarsa (Silkworm Books, distributed by University of Washington Press; 198 pages; $25). Describes how the gendered life expectations of Thai men are challenged in the difficult conditions for migrant workers.
Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone by Susan Shepler (New York University Press; 223 pages; $79 hardcover, $26 paperback). Draws on 18 months of fieldwork in a study of the re-integration of former child soldiers in the West Africa country.
Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures edited by Elizabeth Chin (SAR Press; 192 pages; $29.95). Essays on Dunham’s contributions to anthropology, a discipline she trained in along with her better-known career as a dancer.
Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press; 288 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Documents how young Kenyan women navigate their personal lives, work, and education in the face of economic inequality and an ongoing HIV epidemic.
Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy by Cristiana Giordano (University of California Press; 304 pages; $70 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Discusses what is termed “ethno-psychiatry,” addressing the mental-health needs of migrants, political refugees, and victims of torture and trafficking.
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson (Duke University Press; 280 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Combines ethnography and political theory in a study of the Mohawks of Kahnaa:ke, a borderland reservation community whose members have refused either Canadian or American citizenship.
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History by Kristina Wirtz (University of Chicago Press; 329 pages; $95 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on Mikhail Bakhtin’s space-time concept of “chronotopes” to examine how music, folkloric performance, and other phenomena figure in the experience and representation of blackness in Cuba.
Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World by Cathy Moser Marlett (University of Arizona Press; 281 pages; $75). Examines the knowledge and uses of mollusks among the Seris, a people of Mexico’s western Sonoran desert along the Gulf of California.
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Suzanne Simon (Vanderbilt University Press; 248 pages; $55). Draws on research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in a study of environmental and labor activism on the border.
Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil by Aaron Ansell (University of North Carolina Press; 256 pages; $32.95). Focuses on the poor, northeastern state of Piaui in an ethnographic study of President Lula da Silva’s signature anti-poverty program, Fome Zero.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research edited by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby (University of New Mexico Press; 264 pages; $75). Includes research on newly discovered caches of tools from a Paleoindian culture named for original findings near Clovis, N.M.
Kuaaina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui by Patrick Vinton Kirch (University of Hawai’i Press; 336 pages; $49). Draws on data from excavations over a 17-year period in a rural southeastern area of the Hawaiian island.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Cy Twombly’s Things by Kate Nesin (Yale University Press; 246 pages; $55). A study of the American artist (1928-2011) that focuses on his sculpture and found-object assemblages.
From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture edited by Rosalind P. Blakesley and Margaret Samu (Northern Illinois University Press; 230 pages; $40). Essays by Western and Russian scholars on Russian painting, children’s book illustration, graphic satire, and other art of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study by Patrick Grant (Athabasca University Press, distributed by University of British Columbia Press; 225 pages; US$27.95). Explores metaphors and ideas in Van Gogh’s correspondence and traces the painter’s view of himself as an artist.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years? by Christian Laes and Johan Strubbe (Cambridge University Press; 277 pages; $99). Discusses the lives of youth aged 15 to 25 in the Latin West and Greek East.
CULTURAL STUDIES
Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (University of Wisconsin Press; 190 pages; $26.95). Uses testimonial literature, telenovelas, novels, plays, and memorials in a study of the public memory of Brazil’s 21-year military dictatorship.
ECOLOGY
The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland by Bryan P. Piazza (Texas A&M University Press; 256 pages; $35). Examines the swamps and other habitats of the main distributary for the Mississippi as it reaches the Gulf in south Louisiana.
ECONOMICS
Counterfeit Crime: Criminal Profits, Terror Dollars, and Nonsense by R.T. Naylor (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 308 pages; US$29.95). Discusses the economic, social, and political costs of what are termed misguided government policies against an exaggerated threat.
Greece: From Exit to Recovery? by Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos (Brookings Institution Press; 144 pages; $28). An analysis of the Greek economic crisis; topics include why Greek companies spend relatively little on research and development.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
The Conquest of the Russian Arctic by Paul R. Josephson (Harvard University Press; 440 pages; $55). An environmental and political history that traces efforts since Stalin’s time to control a region that spans nine time zones.
Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan by Merle Massie (University of Manitoba Press; 336 pages; $27.95). A study of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest of the Canadian province.
FILM STUDIES
A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film by Joseph Luzzi (Johns Hopkins University Press; 232 pages; $49.95). Uses analyses of Rossellini, De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini, Pasolini, Bertolucci, and other directors in a study of such questions as film’s links the literary.
John Williams’s Film Music: “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style by Emilio Audissino (University of Wisconsin Press; 346 pages; $29.95). A study of the composer (b. 1932) that examines the origins and legacy of his “neoclassicism.”
Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television edited by Michael DeAngelis (Wayne State University Press; 320 pages; $31.99). Essays on such films as I Love You, Man, Superbad, Humpday, and The Hangover, and such TV shows as Friends, Seinfeld, and House.
GAME STUDIES
Avant-Garde Videogames: Playing With Technoculture by Brian Schrank (MIT Press; 217 pages; $32). A study of how the avant-garde manifests itself in videogames, including games that reveal their nature as games.
GEOGRAPHY
Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies by Katrina-Ann R. Kapa’anaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira (Oregon State University Press; 180 pages; $21.95). Documents how Kanaka or Native Hawaiians use creation narratives and other forms of “cartographic performance” to express their links to their ancestral places.
Going Places: Slovenian Women’s Stories on Migration edited by Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik and Jernej Mlekuz (University of Akron Press; 128 pages; $19.95). Uses letters, diaries, interviews, and other sources to trace the migration of Slovenian women to such sites as Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States.
HISTORY
Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil by Heather F. Roller (Stanford University Press; 342 pages; $70). Draws on previously untapped village-level sources in a study of both the mobility and community attachments of indigenous Amazonian peoples.
Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II by Robert P. Patterson, edited by Brian Waddell (University of Tennessee Press; 328 pages; $48). Edition of a previously unpublished work written between 1945 and 1947 by a federal judge who served as assistant secretary of war.
Bethune in Spain by Jesus Majada and Roderick Stewart (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 186 pages; US$29.95). A study of the Canadian physician Norman Bethune (1890-1939) that focuses on his work for Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, including the development of mobile blood-transfusion units.
Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies by Timothy Brennan (Stanford University Press; 304 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores the divergent origins of anti-colonial thought through a discussion of Spinoza’s debate with Vico, Hegel’s critique of liberalism, and Nietzsche’s sentiments on colonies and social democracy.
A Commercial Republic: America’s Enduring Debate Over Democratic Capitalism by Mike O’Connor (University Press of Kansas; 320 pages; $34.95). Documents the long history of government intervention in the American economy, and debates over the practice.
Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front by Ian Mosby (University of British Columbia Press; 288 pages; US$99). Describes campaigns during World War II to encourage Canadians to eat right because “Canada Needs You Strong” and support the war through rationing, substitutions, and other efforts.
The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France by William R. Nester (University of Oklahoma Press; 400 pages; $34.95). Examines the mid-18th-century conflict from the French perspective.
Harnessed to the Pole: Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909 by Sheila Nickerson (University of Alaska Press; 320 pages; $24.95). Discusses the use of sledge dogs by Elijah Kent Kane, Robert Peary, and five other American explorers.
Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America by Amber Roessner (Louisiana State University Press; 248 pages; $39.95). Examines the crafting of players’ media personas through a study of Cobb’s and Mathewson’s relations with Grantland Rice, F.C. Lane, Ring Lardner, and John N. Wheeler.
John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder by Keith C. Petersen (Washington State University Press; 352 pages; $32.95). A biography of the Virginia-born explorer, soldier, and engineer (1830-1909), who completed the Northwest’s first engineered highway at age 32.
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler’s War Against Caribbean Oil by David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig (University of Calgary Press, distributed by Michigan State University Press; 368 pages; US$39.95). A study of “Operation Neuland,” an effort that began in 1942 to stop oil supplies from reaching the United States and Britain by preventing Allied tankers from leaving Caribbean refineries.
Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt by Koenraad Donker van Heel (American University in Cairo Press; 256 pages; $29.95). Draws on papyrus records in a study of a woman born in Thebes (Karnak) around 550 BC who lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and possibly Psamtik IV.
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 by Lisa Tetrault (University of North Carolina Press; 296 pages; $34.95). Documents how Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and their peers promoted a founding mythology for the movement centered on the 1848 convention.
A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner by Steven Bednarski (University of Toronto Press; 224 pages; US$55 hardcover, US$24.95 paperback). Combines an account of a Frenchwoman accused of killing her husband with a discussion of the methods and challenges of microhistory.
Prudence Crandall’s Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education by Donald E. Williams Jr. (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 476 pages; $35). A study of an abolitionist schoolteacher whose efforts to integrate her Canterbury, Conn., school led to a court case that played a key role in the two landmark Supreme Court decisions.
Quite Contrary: The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love by David J. Langum Sr. (Texas Tech University Press; 256 pages; $34.95). Traces the life of an Arkansas woman who in the 1840s traveled with her children to Santa Clara, California, acquired a Mexican land grant, and despite being illiterate, used lawsuits ably to advance her interests.
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier by Turk McCleskey (University of Virginia Press; 336 pages; $29.95). Traces the life of an enslaved ironworker in Pennsylvania who bought his freedom in 1752, moved to Virginia, and lived with his Scottish wife as a free black landowner; describes how troubles arose with the presence of another white woman in his household and the arrival of a former master’s son who tried to re-enslave him.
Russell Long: A Life in Politics by Michael S. Martin (University Press of Mississippi; 224 pages; $35). A biography of the Louisiana senator (1918-2003), eldest son of the populist firebrand Gov. and Sen. Huey Long.
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650 by Regina Harrison (University of Texas Press; 324 pages; $60). Identifies the influence of Andean modes of thought in Spanish confessional manuals translated into Quechua.
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War by Kenneth A. Daigler (Georgetown University Press; 336 pages; $29.95). Combines scholarly and practitioner perspectives in a study of Revolutionary-era tradecraft of intelligence collection.
Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives edited by Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw (University Press of Colorado; 276 pages; $70). Writings by scholars in history, literature, art history, anthropology, and other fields on a major Aztec city-state.
To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement by Christopher Cameron (Kent State University Press; 176 pages; $45). Discusses black abolitionists in Massachusetts and their impact on the antislavery movement in the Bay State and beyond before 1831.
Tom Horn in Life and Legend by Larry D. Ball (University of Oklahoma Press; 554 pages; $29.95). A biography of a gunman and scout who was both lawman and outlaw and was eventually executed in Wyoming for the killing of a 14-year-old boy, although his guilt is still debated.
A Tough Little Patch of History: “Gone with the Wind” and the Politics of Memory by Jennifer W. Dickey (University of Arkansas Press; 210 pages; $34.95). Examines Gone With the Wind as an aspect of public memory in Atlanta; focuses on museums and historical sites linked to the novel and film.
War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott (Overlook Press; 400 pages; $32.50). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of the war as waged on and off the battlefield.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration by W. Henry Lambright (Johns Hopkins University Press; 336 pages; $49.95). Discusses the history of NASA’s program of robotic Mars exploration as an example of “big science.”
LABOR STUDIES
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Miriam Frank (Temple University Press; 240 pages; $54.50). Draws on interviews with labor and LGBT activists.
LAW
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide by Abigail Perdue and Randall Lockwood (Purdue University Press; 260 pages; $29.95). A study of US v. Stevens, a U.S. Supreme Court case that tested First Amendment rights in regard to videos depicting cruelty to animals.
Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America by Kara W. Swanson (Harvard University Press; 352 pages; $35). Examines how the metaphor of banking has created a market-based understanding of bodily products and their distribution; covers the 19th century to the present.
The Marriage Buyout: The Troubled Trajectory of U.S. Alimony Law by Cynthia Lee Starnes (New York University Press; 240 pages; $45). Develops a reconfigured concept of alimony as a marriage buyout.
LINGUISTICS
Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights edited by Robert Adam and others (Gallaudet University Press; 192 pages; $70). Writings on interpreting in Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, and the United States.
The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History by Bernard Spolsky (Cambridge University Press; 373 pages; $99 hardcover, $36.99 paperback). Topics include such debated issues as the origins of Yiddish, and the extent to which Hebrew was known before its revival as a vernacular.
LITERATURE
America’s Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture edited by Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher (University of Georgia Press; 416 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Interdisciplinary writings on on the reception, influence, and dissemination of evolutionary thought.
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition edited by Ruth Panofsky (University of Ottawa Press; 1,166 pages; US$44.95). Scholarly edition of works by the Canadian modernist poet (1917-2004).
Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Benedict Boisseron (University Press of Florida; 224 pages; $74.95). Analyzes the work of such expatriate and diasporic Caribbean authors as Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Maryse Conde, and Dany Laferriere.
Hard-Core Romance: “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Best-Sellers, and Society by Eva Illouz (University of Chicago Press; 104 pages; $55 hardcover, $20 paperback). Discusses the popular erotic novel and its two sequels as works that combine the genres of romantic fantasy and self-help.
The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music by Don W. King (University of Delaware Press; 584 pages; $120). Edition of selections from the voluminous correspondence of the American poet (1897-1992).
The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First Century French Literature and Film by Leon Sachs (University of Nebraska Press; 248 pages; $70). Explores the interplay of topic and experimental form in literary and cinematic depictions of French education by Agnes Varda,Erik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Francois Begaudeau.
Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature by Reginald A. Wilburn (Duquesne University Press; 340 pages; $58). Traces the appropriation and transformation of the English poet by such writers as Phillis Wheatley, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frederick Douglass, and Anna Julia Cooper.
The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel by Stephen E. Tabachnick (University of Alabama Press; 272 pages; $39.95). Explores graphic novels’ reflections of Jewish belief and identity from Orthodox practice to atheism; authors discussed include Harvey Pekar, Joann Sfar, and Art Spiegelman.
Searching for Eden: John Steinbeck’s Ethical Career by John H. Timmerman (Mercer University Press; 182 pages; $29). Traces changes in the writer’s ethical stance, with a focus on his political activities and immersion in Arthurian myth in his later years.
Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898--1992 by Josa Luis Venegas (Ohio State University Press; 241 pages; $64.95). Discusses modernity in relation to the use of the epistolary form in works by such writers as Ruben Dario, Miguel de Unamuno, and Carmen Martin Gaite.
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit LIterature by Laura R. Brueck (Columbia University Press; 218 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores the literary strategies of Omprakash Valmiki, Ajay Navaria, and other low-caste Hindi writers.
MUSIC
Breaking Time’s Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives by Matthew McDonald (Indiana University Press; 216 pages; $45). Links the approach to time in works by the American composer (1874-1954) to Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalist thought.
Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America edited by Anna Harwell Celenza and Anthony R. DelDonna (Saint Joseph’s University Press; 229 pages; $65). Topics include the Jesuit oratorio in 18th-century Milan, and the Jesuits and the Huron Indian Noel, “Jesous Ahatonnia.”
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York by Michael V. Pisani (University of Iowa Press; 386 pages; $40). Explores music’s role in storytelling, suspense, and creative effects onstage.
This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan by Keith W. Kinder (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 240 pages; US$85 hardcover, US$36.99 paperback). Examines the orchestral and wind band music of a British-born Canadian composer (1880-1968) who is best known for his choral work.
PHILOSOPHY
Luce Irigaray’s Phenomenology of Feminine Being by Virpi Lehtinen (State University of New York Press; 280 pages; $100). Discusses the French philosopher’s views in terms of a “dynamic essentialism.”
Nietzsche’s Last Laugh: “Ecce Homo” as Satire by Nicholas D. More (Cambridge University Press; 235 pages; $90). Argues that the posthumously published text that some have called Nietzsche’s autobiography is actually a satire; includes first translations of correspondence and alternate Ecce Homo drafts.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Africa Consensus: New Interests, Initiatives, and Partners by Ludger Kuhnhardt (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press; 400 pages; $44.95). Considers the future of African countries’ relations with the United States and the European Union, as well as with China, India, Brazil, and other rising economies.
Dividing Divided States by Gregory F. Treverton (University of Pennsylvania Press; 234 pages; $49.95). Discusses security, refugees, water resources, currency, assets and liabilities, and other issues in the aftermath of partition or secession; covers cases from the partition of India to the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia.
Failed States and Fragile Societies: A New World Disorder? edited by Ingo Trauschweitzer and Steven M. Miner (Ohio University Press; 224 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Writings on Somalia, Iraq, Colombia, and the former Yugoslavia.
The Political Consequences of Motherhood by Jill S. Greenlee (University of Michigan Press; 304 pages; $75). Combines a history of the politicization of motherhood in American politics with survey and other data.
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy by Barry Posen (Cornell University Press; 256 pages; $29.95). Criticizes what is termed the United States’ grand strategy of “liberal hegemony” since the end of the Cold War and offers an alternative.
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century by James Steinberg and Michael E. O’Hanlon (Princeton University Press; 260 pages; $29.95). Discusses ways of reinforcing the cooperative aspects of the U.S.-China relationship and avoiding a future arms race and confrontation.
POPULAR CULTURE
Superheroes in Crisis: Adjusting to Social Change in the 1960s and 1970s by Jeffrey K. Johnson (RIT Press; 142 pages; $29.95). Examines the period’s challenge to the personas of Superman and Batman.
RELIGION
Ancoratus by St. Epiphanius of Cyprus, translated by Young Richard Kim (Catholic University of America Press; 288 pages; $39.95). First complete English translation of the theological treatise by a church father who was the leading bishop on Cyprus from 367 to his death, in 403.
China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture by Yang Huilin, edited by Zhang Jing (Baylor University Press; 272 pages; $59.95). Topics include the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity.
Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism by Michael W. Homer (University of Utah Press; 480 pages; $34.95). Documents the close ties between the two movements in the 19th century, a subject that has been played down by both.
Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space by David J. Howlett (University of Illinois Press; 263 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Discusses a temple in Kirtland Ohio, completed by Joseph Smith Jr. that is a contested space for two rival Mormon denominations.
A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism by Page duBois (Harvard University Press; 208 pages; $29.95). Describes and analyzes the endurance of polytheism from ancient times to the present, including in the West.
Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust by George Faithful (Oxford University Press; 270 pages; $74). A study of the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary, a group founded in 1947 by youngLutheran women from Darmstadt who linked their city’s destruction by Allied bombing to God’s wrath for Germany’s sins against the Jews.
The Pious Sex: Catholic Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in Belgium, c. 1800--1940 by Tine Van Osselaer (Leuven University Press, distributed by Cornell University Press; 272 pages; $69.50). Traces the construction of gendered notions of religiosity.
Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion by Michelle Voss Roberts (Fordham University Press; 296 pages; $85 hardcover, $28 paperback). Contrasts views on peace, love, and fury.
RHETORIC
Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance by Erin J. Rand (University of Alabama Press; 224 pages; $44.95). Explores links between academic queer theory and street-level activism in the late 1980s and early 1990s; groups and individuals discussed include Larry Kramer, Act Up, Queer Nation, and the Lesbian Avengers.
Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science by Risa Applegarth (University of Pittsburgh Press; 267 pages; $26.95). Topics include marginalized ethnographers in the 1920s and 30s who developed alternative forms of scientific writing.
SOCIOLOGY
Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives edited by Frank Trovato and Anatole Romaniuk (University of Alberta Press; 600 pages; US$60). Writings on indigenous peoples of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the circumpolar North.
Diverse Pathways: Race and the Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-Origin Africans in the United States by Kevin J.A. Thomas (Michigan State University Press; 162 pages; $29.95). Documents how race and ethnicity affect the incorporation of African immigrants.
The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai by Liza Weinstein (University of Minnesota Press; 256 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Analyzes how the massive Dharavi district has managed to endure despite occupying valuable land in Mumbai.
Jalos, USA: Transnational Community and Identity by Alfredo Mirande (University of Notre Dame Press; 264 pages; $27). A study of how family, gender, courtship, and religion figure in the transnational identities of migrants from the Mexico town of Jalostotitlan settling in Turlock, Calif.
The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood by Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson (Russell Sage Foundation; 288 pages; $35). Reports on a study tracking the life progress over 25 years of a group of nearly 800 predominantly low-income children in Baltimore.
The Muslim Question in Canada: A Story of Segmented Integration by Abdolmohammad Kazemipur (University of British Columbia Press; 224 pages; US$99). Argues that Canada is a model for successful integration.
Sacred Divorce: Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships by Kathleen E. Jenkins (Rutgers University Press; 248 pages; $80 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Draws on interviews with clergy and congregants in a study of how religion figures in divorce for Baptists, Catholics, Unitarians, Jews, and mainline Protestants.
Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism by Yolande Jansen (Amsterdam University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 344 pages; $49.95). Criticizes efforts to assimilate religious minorities; combines discussion of Proust and French Jews in the 19th century with the situation of Muslims today in Europe.
THEATER
The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera Under the Revolution (1949--1956) by Wilt Lukas Idema (Chinese University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 240 pages; $45). A study of Huangmei opera, a regional Chinese theater originating in the countryside of Anqing; focuses on its popularity with the 1950s play and movie Married to a Heavenly Immortal, and includes a translation.
The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black-Owned Theater by Thomas Bauman (University of Illinois Press; 232 pages; $55). Discusses a theater and music venue opened in 1904 by the political operator and gambling boss Robert T. Motts.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement by Amy Young Evrard (Syracuse University Press; 312 pages; $39.95). Discusses individuals and groups working to reform the Moroccan Family Code and raise awareness of women’s rights.
A Question of Sex: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That Matter by Kristan Poirot (University of Massachusetts Press; 184 pages; $80 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Topics include the visual rhetoric of the feminist self-help movement, and discourse around contemporary “SlutWalks.”
Violence against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform by Carol E. Jordan (University Press of Kentucky; 462 pages; $40). Covers efforts to protect Kentucky women from domestic violence, rape, stalking, and related crimes over the past four decades.
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