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  "David Bowie"; "Truman Capote"; "Lou Reed"

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  Entries in Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History.

  Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

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  Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

  Lisa Walker PhD

  Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.

  Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.

  Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory.

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  Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology

  Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD

  The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.

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  Strange and Exotic: Images of the Other on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference.

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  Agency in Archaeology

  Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD and John E. Robb

  Ed. Marcia-Anne Dobres, PhD. and John E. Robb.

  Agency in Archaeology

  is the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group.

  Agency in Archaeology

  brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.

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  Health and Exercise Science: Team Research Report

  James Graves PhD

  Chapter in Using Student Teams in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide; ed. Ruth Federman Stein & Sandra Hurd.

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  Considerations for the development of back extensor muscle strength

  James Graves PhD and J M. Mayer

  Chapter in Exercise Prescription and the Back.

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  Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity [Book Chapter]

  Julien Murphy PhD

  Chapter from Globalizing feminist bioethics : crosscultural perspectives, edited by Rosemarie Tong, with Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos.

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  Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting, fatal daughter syndrome, use of reproductive technologies, male responsibility, pediatrics, breast cancer, pregnancy, and drug testing.Jean-Paul Sartre analyzed oppression within the larger socioeconomic system that constitutes it, seeing it primarily in terms of scarcity. It is the perception of scarcity in reproduction that fuels, in part, the race to clone humans. For Sartre, scarcity is the basis of alienation in modern societies marked by competition over limited resources, and it characterizes all human relationships. In the case of cloning, overabundance is created by an attempt to address scarcity, since at present cloning is a highly inefficient mode of reproduction. Whether cloning will advance or impede women's liberation is a complex matter that is not discernable in the short term. Cloning, when viewed from an international perspective, raises issues of social justice. International consensus, when possible, on bioethics issues related to cloning and embryo research is increasingly important, as are global assessments of the distribution of medical resources.

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  "Civic Character" Engaged: Adult Learners and Service Learning

  Eve Allegra Raimon PhD and Jan L. Hitchcock

  Chapter in The Practice of Change.

  This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women’s studies sources.

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  Frederic Hudson

  Adam-Max Tuchinsky PhD

  Entry in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Dr. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; David J. Coles, Associate Editor.

  About the book:

  The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War is the most comprehensive reference set ever compiled on this pivotal confrontation. Its five oversized volumes, rich with illustrations, maps, and primary source documents, offer more than 1,600 authoritative entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict.
  
  Written by scholars, the essays are both authoritative and easily accessible to history buffs, students, and general readers. Brief entry bibliographies lead curious readers to the most reliable sources for further information.

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  The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  Edited by Shelton Waldrep

  The 1970s rather than the 60s is the defining decade of millennial anxieties, according to Waldrep (English, U. of Southern Maine). Fourteen essays by academics, journalists, and KC of KC & the Sunshine Band re/define the 70s through commentary on its New Journalism, movements (from the Black Panthers to Jonestown), pop culture genres, fashion as "compulsive artifice," the gay 70s, and the era's music. Includes b&w illustrations of 1970s fashions (some being recycled today), gender-bending stars David Bowie and Sandra Bernhard, and films such as Wayne's World . Indexed solely by proper name. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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  The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  Chapter in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.

  Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-consciousness about its own appropriations of the past. This diverse collection of essays begins a long-overdue discussion of how postmodernism understands the Victorian as its historical predecessor.

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  Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843

  Matthew Edney

  In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities.

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  The Complete Guide to the Hazardous Waste Regulations : RCRA, TSCA, HMTA, OSHA, and Superfund

  Travis P. Wagner PhD

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  Lives of Medieval Urban Lay Women

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.

  Tierney's highly acclaimed Women's Studies Encyclopedia has become the standard in the field, but research on women has proceeded rapidly since its publication. Feminist thought has grown and branched out, and women's conditions have changed markedly in some areas. This revised and expanded edition will meet the continuing need for a multidisciplinary reference tool on all facets of the female condition. With close to 400 contributors, it expands coverage of such areas as violence against women, women in public life, and women in specific countries and regions. Many of the articles are new or completely rewritten, while others have been updated or expanded. The encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study, written in non-specialist language accessible to all readers. It will continue to be a useful resource for students and scholars doing research outside their fields, and the interested layperson.

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  Writing Faith: Text. Sign. and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn

  A trickster saint whose miracles reportedly included the healing of an inguinal hernia via a hammer and anvil, Sainte Foy inspired one of the most important collections of miracle stories of the central middle ages. Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn explore the act of "writing faith" as performed both by the authors of these stories and by the scholars who have used them as sources for the study of medieval religion and society. As Ashley and Sheingorn show, differing agendas shaped the miracle stories over time. The first author, Bernard of Angers, used his narratives to critique popular religion and to establish his own literary reputation, while the monks who continued the collection tried to enhance their monastery's prestige. Because these stories were rhetorical constructions, Ashley and Sheingorn argue, we cannot use them directly as sources of historical data. Instead, they demonstrate how analyzing representations common to groups of miracle stories—such as negative portrayals of Muslims on the eve of the Crusades—can reveal the traces of history.

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  Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics

  F C. McGrath PhD

  Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature. This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish writers like Friel who, following in a line from Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey, challenge British culture with antirealistic, antimirnetic devices to create alternative worlds, histories, and new identities to escape stereotypes imposed by the colonizers. Friel grew up in Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and now lives in the Irish Republic. McGrath maintains that all Friel's work is marked by colonial and postcolonial structures. Like his predecessor Wilde, Friel mixes lies, facts, memories, and individual perception to create new myths and elevates blarney to a realm of aesthetic and philosophical distinction. An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression.

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  Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre

  Julien Murphy PhD

  While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.

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  Feminist interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre

  Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.

  Ed. Julien S. Murphy

  While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.

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  The syntax of American Sign Language : functional categories and hierarchical structure

  Carol Neidle, Judy Kegl PhD, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan, and Robert G. Lee

  Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken languages. This book addresses the organization and distribution of functional categories in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on tense, agreement, and wh-constructions. Signed languages provide illuminating evidence about functional projections of a kind unavailable in the study of spoken languages. Along with manual signing, crucial information is expressed by specific movements of the face and upper body. The authors argue that such nonmanual markings are often direct expressions of abstract syntactic features. The distribution and intensity of these markings provide information about the location of functional heads and the boundaries of functional projections. The authors show how evidence from ASL is useful for evaluating a number of recent theoretical proposals on, among other things, the status of syntactic agreement projections and constraints on phrase structure and the directionality of movement.

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  The Life Story Interview

  Robert Atkinson

  First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. This volume provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Robert Atkinson places the life story interview into a wider research context before elaborating on planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview. The author provides a sample life story interview in the appendix.

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  Courtesy Literature

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia.

  First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

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  Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866-1954)

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline.

  E.K. Chambers, historian of the medieval and Elizabethan stages, was born at West Ilsley, Berkshire, on 16 March 1866. His father, William Chambers, was curate of West Ilsley and later rector of St. Mary Blanford. His mother was Anna Heathcote; her father, Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, was a churchman and editor of schoolbooks.

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  Mary Antin’s Biomythography

  Kathleen M. Ashley PhD

  Chapter in Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography.

  The twenty-nine essays in this collection explore the theory and practice of writing lives of the self and of others from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Drawing on new insights from literary theory including feminism, poststructuralism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis, scholars and biographers examine a wide range of examples.