Ethnicity and Social Divisions
This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.
Women at the Polls
Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.
In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
Voices from within the Veil
The Veil hangs between Then and Now, between Black and White, between You and Me. Voices from within the Veil explores this 400-year prelude, addressing African Americans’ marginalization and their paths to empowerment through protest and organization.
Trajectories of Memory
This volume offers new perspectives on remembering the Holocaust in history, literature, and theatre. It addresses changing representations across generations and asks: As survivors die, how do we transmit their difficult legacy and respond to the dictum: Never again?
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.
Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire
Across the vast Portuguese colonial empire, women were silenced, mystified, and erased from history. This collection of essays questions these historical gaps, uncovering the real roles of those whose voices were systematically written out of the record.
Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
Prominent thinkers from various disciplines engage with Martin Heidegger to critically evaluate his controversial legacy. This volume goes beyond polarized perceptions to present a neo-humanist and post-political reading of what is still “livable” in his work.
This collection of essays on cognition explores cognitive processes in culture, nature, and memes. The authors introduce a dynamic approach, shedding new light on themes such as animal thought, minds and computing, and the social dimension of knowledge.
Engaging Tradition, Making It New
Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.
On Allegory
This collection of essays explores the allegorical imagination in pre-modern western culture. Contributors study its impact on literature, philosophy, and the visual arts, revealing the variety and complexity of allegory at the heart of medieval civilisation.
Breaking Forms
During Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.
Ethnographic Discourse of the Other
This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.
This book reads the parables of Jesus as language-games. Not abstract truths, these stories illustrate God’s kingdom and call readers to participate in its unfolding, making the parables accessible and removing them from the pedestal of obscurity.
Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century
This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.
EU and the Balkans
In the Balkans, integration and disintegration are the two poles of discourse. While joining the EU is seen as a solution to conflict, it may be a catalyst for further disintegration. This book assesses if EU integration fosters or discourages unity.
Arians and Vandals of the 4th-6th Centuries
In late sixth-century North Africa, the legacy of the Arians and Vandals fueled bitter schisms within the Catholic Church. This study reveals the religious persecution that forced families to flee their homes in a struggle for faith and survival.
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