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Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Karen Sacks offers the first detailed account of the hospital industry's nonprofessional support staff---their roles in day-to-day health care delivery, and why they fought so tenaciously throughout the 1970s to unionize. This case study of the relationships between work life and unionization in Duke medical Center highlights women's activism in ......
''This may be the most brilliant book ever written on Mormonism. It is insightful, inspiring, and original and sure to become a landmark work on the subject.''--Richard L. Bushman, author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon was true history, and tht Peter, James, and John restored the apostleship. Mormonism was history, not philosophy. It is as ......
This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called ''a classic text of the American Renaissance.'' As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass but also because it ......
Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction
In this pioneering study, Robin Lydenberg focuses upon the stylistic accomplishments of this controversial and experimental writer. In doing so, she skillfully demonstrates that the ideas we now recognize as characteristic of post-structuralism and deconstruction were being developed independently by Burroughs long ago.
''Seelye's version seems even funnier than the original, and also more moving, since Seelye's Huck Finn is even less sentimental about life and Tom Sawyer than Twain's Huck Finn. He is also more perceptive about black people than the original.'' -- Hughes Rudd, CBS News''Seelye has stitched together a whale of a book. Without reference to Twain's ......
They were called ''frail sisters,'' ''fallen angels,'' ''filles de Joie,'' ''soiled doves,'' ''queens of the night,'' and ''whores.'' They worked the seamy brothels, saloons, cribs, streets, and ''hog ranches'' of the American frontier. They were the prostitutes of the post-Civil War West. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery details the destitute ......
''Stansell brings nineteenth-century New York's working women out of the shadows. . . . A brilliant and original book.''--Katha Pollitt ''Describing the specific moral and economic circumstances of individual female lives, Stansell makes vivid historical sense of what until now has been obscured by generalization, abstraction, and ......
