The modern girl around the world

consumption, modernity, and globalization

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and ...

Sciences from below

feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the ...

The new women's labor history

"The New Women 's Labor History", a special issue of "Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas", offers the newest scholarship in the field of women's labor history. The product of a spirited international conference on women's labor history held at the ...

Ghost of passion

martyrdom, gender, and the origins of the Spanish Civil War

The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936#39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions ...

Avant-garde fascism

the mobilization of myth, art, and culture in France, 1909-1939

Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were ...

FDR and the spanish Civil War

neutrality and commitment in the struggle that divided America

What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America's rise to global power, and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as ...

Conflicted Antiquities

Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

"Conflicted Antiquities" is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology - the study of ancient Egypt ...

On violence

a reader

This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the ...

Congress and the Constitution

For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a sceptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny highlights the need ...

Museum skepticism

a history of the display of art in public galleries

In "Museum Skepticism", art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development ...

Nostalgia for the modern

state secularism and everyday politics in Turkey

As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state was challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund ...

Trading roles

gender, ethnicity and the urban economy in Colonial Potosí

Environmentality

technologies of government and the making of subjects

Women's history

in global perspective

Theology and the political

the new debate

Intercultural utopias

publics intellectuals, cultural experimentation, and ethnic pluralism in Colombia

While only two percent of Colombia's population identifies themselves as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country's indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and eighty percent of the country's mineral resources ...

Zapotec women

gender, class and ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca

In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec- speaking town ...

Criminal woman, the prostitute, and the normal woman

Constitutional deliberation in Congress

the impact of judicial review in a separated system

Analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions and its judicial review of statutes on lawmaking in Congress In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyses the impact of the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based ...

It's all for sale

the control of global resources

World-systems analysis

an introduction

Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach to understanding the history and development of the modern world that he pioneered thirty years ago. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences ...

Constitutional failure

Carl Schmitt in Weimar

Argues that Carl Schmitt's critique of Weimar Republic liberalism cannot be countered by reforming liberalism is also a contribution to current political theory and an analysis of contemporary liberalism Develops a compelling, rigorous argument that unsettles many assumptions about liberalism, democracy, and dictatorship Constitutional ...