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Screening the Body Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture Lisa Cartwright 1995 Spring: Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound. Lisa Cartwright brings to light eccentric projects in the history of science and medicine, such as Thomas Edison's sensational attempt to image the brain with X rays before a public audience, and the efforts of doctors to use the motion picture camera to capture movements of the body, from the virtually imperceptible flow of blood to epileptic seizures.
Queer Noises Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music John Gill 1995 Spring: This fascinating account of gays and lesbians in the music industry considers the lives of a host of performers-from Benjamin Britten and John Cage to Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin, from Billy Strayhorn and Cecil Taylor to Sun Ra and the Pet Shop Boys. Witty, opinionated, and occasionally outrageous, Gill attempts to end the silence about the contributions of gays and lesbians to twentieth-century music.
The Crisis of Meaning In Culture and Education David Trend 1995 Spring: Investigating what he views as an inseparable link between culture and politics, Trend analyzes how notions of patriotism, citizenship, community, and family are communicated within specific public and private institutions. He extends the meaning and purpose of pedagogy as a cultural practice outside the classroom, focusing on political activism in education, the mass media, and the art world.
Television, Tabloids, and Tears Fassbinder and Popular Culture Jane Shattuc 1994 Fall: The first book to discuss Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the context of West German television and popular culture.
Mythographic Chaucer The Fabulation of Sexual Politics Jane Chance 1994 Fall: Provides a many-sided look at the poems of Chaucer and the sexual politics of his day.
Tribal Secrets Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions Robert Warrior 1994 Fall: “Robert Warrior writes at once to the memories of tribal survivance and the critical confidence of his generation; he ascertains intellectual histories that have been largely unconsidered in other studies of Native American Indians . . . a courageous comparative textual criticism.” --Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley
Forsaking our Children Bureaucracy and Reform in the Child Welfare System John M. Hagedorn None None
A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm 1995 Spring: This up-to-date resource for the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Anishinaabe contains ancient and modern words and meanings.
Getting Specific Postmodern Lesbian Politics Shane Phelan 1994 Fall: The only book to debate lesbian political theory.
Feminine Feminists Cultural Practices in Italy Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Editor 1994 Fall: Concludes that the terms "feminine" and "feminist" are not mutually exclusive in Italy.
Reading Dido Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid Marilynn Desmond 1994 Fall: Describes the variations in the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient literary texts.
Socialist Ensembles Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua Randy Martin 1994 Fall: Adds the new dimension of theater to discussions of the evolution of socialist states.
The Administration of Aesthetics Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere Richard Burt, Editor 1994 Fall: Calls attention to the crucial difficulties inherent in censorship when it is used as a tool for cultural criticism.
Film, Politics, and Gramsci Marcia Landy 1994 Fall: Studies history as a form of folklore and reveals Gramsci's contributions to a rethinking of Marxism.
Photography at the Dock Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices Abigail Solomon-Godeau 1994 Fall: Classic book integrating cultural criticism, feminism, art theory, and the history of photography now available in paperback.