Overholt shows the usefulness of cultural anthropology to enhance our understanding of ancient Israelite society and to shed light on some puzzling features of Old Testament stories, especially in the Elijah and Elisha cycles.
A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology
Covers a range of topics around sexual and gender identities. This title features contributors who assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. It focuses upon disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience.
A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology
Covers a range of topics around sexual and gender identities. This book features contributors who assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. It focuses upon disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience.
Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, this book explores the ways in which our social, psychological, biological - and literary - crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.
Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
A study that exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. It explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological - and literary - crossings and disruptions slavery engendered.
A collection of four unconventional essays presented by Islamic art and architecture expert Michael Meinecke in lecture form at New York University before his sudden death in 1995. The case studies, representing years of field experience, do not follow the traditional periodic, linear approach of m
Examines the ways in which historical, cultural, and personal identities impact on pedagogy and scholarship. This title features essays that cover such topics as the outsider's gaze as it applies to the study of non-white literature; an able-bodied woman's reflections on teaching literature by disabled women; and, more.
Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks ......
Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks ......
