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Rhetorical Arts of Women in Aviation, 1911-1970
The Rhetorical Arts of Women in Aviation, 1911-1970: Name It and Take It explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins …
Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare
This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays.The theme of sexuality is often …
Hotel California
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.'Hotel …
Invisible Labour
This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers, in …
Work, give us work
None of Your Business
The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998. A key provision will prohibit transfer of personal information from Europe to other …
Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86
The strike by Local P-9 against the Hormel Co. in 1985-86 marked a turning point in American labor history. The central role played in the strike by the Austin United Support Group …
Newspaper Days
In Newspaper Days, first published in 1922 under the title A Book about Myself, Theodore Dreiser explored his personal life during the time he spent as a reporter for newspapers in …
The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise
"Vigorous, provocative... The Sack of Detroit is compelling, bold and stylishly written."--Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal A provocative, revelatory history of the epic …
Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream
Our economic arrangements require a persuasive story that can explain who is rich, who is poor, and why. This story shapes our attitudes toward what is just and unjust; this story …
Macho Ethics
Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, …
Tasting the Good Life
While anthropologists often have been accused of failing to "study up," this book turns an anthropological lens on an elite activity – wine tasting. Five million people a year, …