Spring/Summer 2012

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    Jungle Fever
    Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives
    Charlotte Rogers
    The sinister "jungle"--that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubt--is the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination. Fil...
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    Opening Minds, Improving Lives
    Education and Women's Empowerment in Honduras
    Erin Murphy-Graham
    Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "open" her mind. Living in a remote Garifuna village in Honduras, Juanita had dropped out of ...
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    Opening Minds, Improving Lives
    Education and Women's Empowerment in Honduras
    Erin Murphy-Graham
    Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "open" her mind. Living in a remote Garifuna village in Honduras, Juanita had dropped out of ...
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    Ceramics, Production, and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region
    The Economic Parameters of the Classic Maya Collapse
    Antonia E. Foias
    Ronald L. Bishop
    The Classic Maya collapse has engendered a great deal of debate over the last decades. This collapse was a highly variable phenomenon that did not affect the whole Maya zone, so the specific events...
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    Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
    Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi
    Edited by Leah Middlebrook
    This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in...
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    Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
    Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi
    Edited by Leah Middlebrook
    This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in...
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    Magdalene House
    A Place about Mercy
    Sarah VanHooser Suiter
    Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two years. During that time, the women are given time, ...
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    Magdalene House
    A Place about Mercy
    Sarah VanHooser Suiter
    Women come to Magdalene House in Nashville when they are ready to leave the streets. They live together--unsupervised and free of charge--for two years. During that time, the women are given time, ...
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    Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses
    Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
    Edited by Donna King
    Edited by Carrie Lee Smith
    Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and <...
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    Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses
    Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
    Edited by Donna King
    Edited by Carrie Lee Smith
    Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and <...
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    Wounded I Am More Awake
    Finding Meaning after Terror
    Julia Lieblich
    Esad Boskailo
    Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.
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    Wounded I Am More Awake
    Finding Meaning after Terror
    Julia Lieblich
    Esad Boskailo
    Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.
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    Religion and the Cold War
    A Global Perspective
    Edited by Philip Muehlenbeck
    The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Less clear is the role religious ideology play...
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    Religion and the Cold War
    A Global Perspective
    Edited by Philip Muehlenbeck
    The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Less clear is the role religious ideology play...
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    Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War
    A Global Perspective
    Edited by Philip Muehlenbeck
    A white American woman is raped by a black Panamanian laborer in 1946 in the Panama Canal Zone, and the aftermath affects labor relations in the Western hemisphere for the next two decades. And num...
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    Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War
    A Global Perspective
    Edited by Philip Muehlenbeck
    A white American woman is raped by a black Panamanian laborer in 1946 in the Panama Canal Zone, and the aftermath affects labor relations in the Western hemisphere for the next two decades. And num...
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    The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War
    Deborah Cohn
    During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural poli...
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    The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War
    Deborah Cohn
    During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural poli...
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    Anonymous in Their Own Names
    Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant
    Susan Henry
    Anonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the ...
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    Transnational Desires
    Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York
    Suzana Maia
    Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transnational ...
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    Transnational Desires
    Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York
    Suzana Maia
    Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transnational ...
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    Gunshots at the Fiesta
    Literature and Politics in Latin America
    Maarten van Delden
    Yvon Grenier
    The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin Americ...
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    Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience
    Edited by Lauren Fordyce
    Edited by Aminata Maraesa
    As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: "These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite va...
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    Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience
    Edited by Lauren Fordyce
    Edited by Aminata Maraesa
    As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: "These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite va...
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