Cultural Studies

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, ch...

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of ...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, wh...

Planned, instituted and run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the comfort women system remains hugely controversial. A...

From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

The relationship between intellectual property and food affects the production and availability of food by regulating dealings in products, process...

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shi...

This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the mann...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

Being the Chosen explores Christian fundamentalism in the USA, focusing particularly on the belief system of Protestant fundamentalists. It establi...

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucid...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has in...

News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white so...

The book marks the circulation of the term promiscuous feminist methodology and registers its salience for educational researchers who risk blunder...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time ...

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationsh...

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narrativ...

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally bea...