Books published by Temple University Press,U.S.

Explores the frightening ways our prisons mirror the worst aspects of society-wide gender relations and is a part of the growing research on men and masculinities. This collection combines contributions from activists, academics, and prisoners.

A debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity, this work critiques the surface ideals and underlying messages promoted by the men's movement.

Offers a political-economic reassessment of New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities.

A collection of essays on the importance of community to women's social, cultural, and political relationships.

An autobiography of Mark Monroe, a Lakota Sioux Indian, is a story of courage, faith, and determination, and a rare opportunity to witness the life of a contemporary American Indian. Despite lifelong confrontations with violence, racism, and personal hardship - alcoholism, family deaths, illness, poverty, and unemployment.

Provides a picture of the complex dynamic among individual biography and sociological practice, personal growth, and institutional change. This volume is written by eighteen senior women sociologists who engage in analytic reflections on interconnections between their personal lives and their research, teaching, and activism.

Basing her work on the premise that sexuality is molded by both history and culture, the author analyzes the emergence of adolescent pregnancy as a public policy issue. She examines how Americans think about and handle deviant behavior and social change.

Citing examples of promises made in everyday life, in extraordinary circumstances, and in literary works, this book grapples with the central paradox of promising: that human beings can intend a future to which they are largely blind. It evaluates contemporary approaches to the topic by such philosophers as John Rawls, Henry Sidgwick, and others.

A collection of essays in contemporary radical philosophy, which draws on diverse traditions and movements, including feminism, critical theory, Marxism, deconstruction, democratic socialism, theories of race and ethnicity, deep ecology, and politicized spirituality.

Explores the relationship of power in the process of social choice. Outlining a "process-oriented" understanding of popular sovereignty, this work focuses on political and socio-economic rights as background conditions for free and equal public deliberation.

A collection of essays that places a distinguished academic career within the context of a personal and political reality that is grounded in a working-class background and a commitment to feminist activism. It offers criticism of philosophical and feminist ethics and social theory.

Considering photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Tee, and Arthur Rothstein, as well as personal papers, memoirs, interviews, and the FSA file, this title reconstructs the methods the photographers used to create the images that defined the Depression in the public's imagination.

Arguing that war is philosophically irreconcilable with Christianity, this title contradicts just war theorists, whose position can be traced to Church figures notably Tomas Acquinas. While the roots of pacifism lie in the teachings of Jesus, it relies as much on philosophical argument as on theological exegesis or speculation.

Examines the final text of the "Resolution on the Negro Question". This work seeks to substantiate the view that the significant impact of communism in combating racism and supporting Black Liberation cannot be ignored by a student of United States history and society.

Examines gang activities in East Los Angeles. This book is written by the author of "Mexican Americans" and co-author (with Leo Grebler) of "The Mexican American People."

Considering the writings of Jameson, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Nietzsche, among others, this book shows how Kiefer's use of literary, mythological, and other cultural texts parallels the intertextual approach common among postmodern theorists.

A literary study of three important black women writers, this book examines the "inter-American" characteristics in the work of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones, including detailed discussions of Morrison's Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, Jones' Corregidora and Song of Anninho, and Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.

Provides an analysis of the relationship between business and the state. This volume discusses the author's relationship to different strands of Marxism. It argues that while business interests have far more influence over state policy than other constituencies, state actors still have substantial autonomy in formulating policies.

"Feminist film theory will soon be a quarter of a century old. It has known the euphoria of the 1970s, experienced the contradictions of the 1980s, and glimpsed the reversals and political gains, which include women of color, of the 1990s." This book asks, what does "happily" mean for women? And what does "ever after" cost women?

During the Progressive Era, the child guidance movement began as part of the Commonwealth Fund's "Program for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency." This book presents the complex history of the child guidance movement in relation to the mental health professions, philanthropic foundations, and the American family.

Focusing on the ways in which literary or critical theory is being promoted within the field of social history, this book argues that the reliance on poststructuralism with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance obscures the origins and consequences of historical events and processes.

Brings together writings about crime that range from articles by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to a variety of contemporary essays. Taking an explicitly Marxist point of view, the articles deal with various aspects of criminology, including organized crime, delinquency, urban crime, criminal law, and criminal justice.

An original and quirky take on Philadelphia legends and the meaning of "tough athlete"

A book of opposites for young readers, based on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collections

While Bernard Berenson's roles as a connoisseur, Renaissance art expert, defender of Western culture, and arbiter of taste extraordinaire are well known, his role as critic and theorist of modern art has been little understood. This biography aims to place Berenson's career in the context of modernist art and criticism.

Deals with the philosophical problems of perception and with the status of color properties. In making the case for the 'color skepticism', this title discusses and rejects historically influential accounts of the nature of secondary qualities such as those of Locke, Reid, Galileo, and Hobbes as well as the work of Kripke and Grice.