Cultural Studies

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan womens auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its c...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...

Can the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American cu...

Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virgi...

The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we...

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in BrittanyGalles, Jollivet, and Le Ridantwho rose t...

Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resiste...

This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissants thought, and stunning...

Speak the Culture: Italy offers a rich and engaging insight into the events, people and movements that have shaped Italy and the Italians. A guideb...

There is a growing belief worldwide that things have gone terribly wrong. We are plagued by corruption, violence, greed and self-interest. And we k...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a l...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstr...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers t...

Starting from a series of questions about the nature of our speaking to God, the author draws our attention to what we mean by culture, and how we ...

Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it i...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings ...

The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty 'stories' of Transylvania, a part of the world that has fascinated the author for many years, and wh...

Whether it is in Madrid's cafe s or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brinks takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are th...

Body image is considered a multi-dimensional concept that includes perceptual, attitudinal, affective, and behavioural dimensions. The definition o...

Cultural competence and responsiveness are considered essential for classroom teachers who teach diverse groups of students. Teacher training progr...

This book explores how a civilization, specifically, Western civilization accommodates multiple cultures, their interactions and transformations, h...