Books published by Rutgers University Press

Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sought inspiration in Brazil, where she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil.

What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This book provides a compelling comparative examination of this important topic through current research, literature reviews, and dialogue with existing debates.

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, the authors explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies and the crisis of modernity.

Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei (Japanese American) women who served in the military during World War II, the author provides firsthand accounts of their experiences and, with extensive archival research, sheds light on their reasoning at that time.

This collection of essays attempts to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during and after World War II. Topics covered include the pre-war legacy of anti-semitism; and the official Polish response to the Nazi Final Solution.

This volume explores various aspects of behaviour that are endemic to contemporary Western society, and proposes ways of understanding and addressing them. Many of our behaviours are played out in an arena that is far different from that in which they evolved.

Originally published in 1869, this was one of the 19th centuries most important handbooks of domestic advice - a collaboration by two of the era's most important women writers. It represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods.

Examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Books studied include ""Kindred"", ""Dessa Rose"" and ""Beloved"". These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporay black women have a ""safe"" vantage point.

This text explores how modern and industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centres. It provides historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease control aid from the United States affected the collective development of these populations.

This text takes the reader through the Hebrew Bible to examine ancient Israel's ideas of the body, the unstable role of gender, the deployment of sexuality and the cultural practices of the time. It looks at the logic of ancient social meanings and contrasts them with contemporary social theory.

This study progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to the impact and implications of the Internet, to reveal how the black press' content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America.

This is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. The issues explored include: the burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in Northeast China, and a girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain.

Presents a sociological redefinition and reexamination of religion. For religion to endure in the modern world, Hervieu-Leger finds, it must have deep roots in traditions and times in which it was not defined as irrelevant.

This case study of the conflict over water rights between the local, ritualized models of water distribution used by the people of Cabanaconde in the Andes, and the secular model put forward by the Peruvian state, provides a framework for studying ethnic conflict and the effects of """"development"""".

On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. This attack threw Washington's army into turmoil and led to an American retreat across the state. This book examines this critical campaign.

The author demonstrates how the history of the hardware of sound recording and the ways people use it helps in understanding how a particular technology became a fixture in everyday life. Each case study emphasizes a significant aspect of the culture of recording and its relationship to technology.

The perspectives William Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments.

Studies a large colonial American family over five generations. Fabend looks at how this ordinary family of independent, middle-class farmers coped with immigration, established themselves in a community, acquired land and capital, and took part in the social, political, economic, and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This work examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. The author analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a """"real"""" American.

Through interviews with 120 pregnant, or recently delivered, drug-using women, this book examines pregnant drug addicts make choices about drug use, pregnancy and pre-natal care. The authors seek to understand the feelings and motivations of the women themselves.

A translation of the original and unedited diary entries of the black Brazilian slum dweller who became an international best-selling author. The entries span the years 1958 to 1966 and there is also an explanation of how the Brazilian elites tried to obscure her true personality.

As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. While there are many official accounts of Partition, there are few social histories and no feminist histories. Borders and Boundaries changes that, providing first-hand accounts and memoirs, juxtaposed alongside official government accounts.

The technological, economic and social landscape of the consumer society was formed between the 1880s and 1920s. The author of this study shows how cinema played a key role in changing the urban landscape, using Chicago as a model and linking cinema theory with women's studies.

Why train for seven years in Western ways and then move to homoeopathy and Chinese medicine? This book traces the transformational journeys of 40 American physicians who have made this move, outlining the basic models of American health care - technocratic, humanistic and holistic - on the way.

This account of politics and popular music develops the concept of """"acting in concert,"""" a metaphor for community based political action that is communicated in and around music. Through detailed case studies, the text explores how communities use popular music to understand democratic processes.

Based on a first hand ethnographic study of two Christian fundamentalist congregations to study the power of fundamentalist women, this work seeks to shed light on the ideas and faith experiences of these women. It also reveals how they can be powerful in their religious cosmos.

Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and look beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization.