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Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists.

While the majority of included writers are younger artists who came of age in the post-Stonewall U.S., some are older authors whose work has continued or persisted into recent decades.

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This book is about the transformation of the contemporary Peruvian middle class. Scholars interested in Latin American stratification and urbanization will find this book informative about two oft neglected, but highly relevant, topics in the region: the middle classes and the formal area of the city.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.No other anthology offers this wide spectrum of ethnicities.

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Contesting Constructed Indian-ness seeks to highlight the investment of white American males with the history of their relationship with the ideas of the Indian. This book documents the investments of white men with that of the ideal Indian, while disregarding the reality of Native Americans in this country.

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Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing. Conversation emerges as both a theory and a method of feminist political inquiry and practice. The most vocal participants in Weiss' conversat...

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How far can an ethnic group in America maintain its identity before it is regarded as un-American The research in this book has been conducted in a metropolitan area among working-class adults. As well as mainstream black and white Americans, several other ethnic groups are included.

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Explores post colonial relationships with "the wild" in the US and Russia, using spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins as examples.

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This book includes culturally diverse case studies, interventions, and best practices for counselors working with women across the lifespan. Topics include normative developmental issues, relationships, self-esteem, body image, addictions, parenting, caregiving, and loss.

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From gated communities to Heaven's Gate, the idea and practice of community in America has not only declined but mutated. This text examines the counterfeit community in America from a number of perspectives revealing that building a genuine community means no quick fixes.

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In Cracking the Freemason's Code, Robert Cooper explains exactly who the Freemasons are and what they do.

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This book looks at schooling in segregated America.

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Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory.

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This book examines cricket and race in England over the past century and a half.

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This book examines cricket and race in England over the past century and a half.

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Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their effort to explain observed race differences in crime. Of particular co...

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A collection of essays which examine responses to the struggle to live, in Southern England during 1740-1850. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy".