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Indecent Exposure
Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the …
Natural History of the Romance Novel
The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on …
"e;The Planetary Garden"e; and Other Writings
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clement may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc Andre Citron and the garden of the Musee du Quai Branly, but he …
Sensuous Scholarship
Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards …
Early Theological Writings
This volume includes Hegel's most important early theological writings, though not all of the materials collected by Herman Nohl in his definitive Hegels theologische …
Singing of Birth and Death
Socrates and Alcibiades
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a tension-ridden combination of the …
Shaping of Somali Society
While recurrent drought, war with neighboring Ethiopia, and a staggering refugee crisis have recently propelled the African nation of Somalia into world headlines, remarkably …
Article by Article
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century. A leading authority on the UDHR, …
First Rapprochement
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from …
Labors Lost
Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's …
Skyscraper
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleNowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this …