Gender

Examines the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of The Honeymooners in the context of postwar American values.

Examines the full run of Sex and the City and its production background, place in television history, innovations to the genre, and reception.

A compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories.

Considers the changes in American Judaism across the four major denominations that resulted from the Jewish feminist movement of the 1960s through today.

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.

Portrays the experiences of Egyptian Karaites in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores the relationship between text and everyday life, between literal reading and its translation into bodily practices—especially as related to the female body.

A feminist analysis of the "cinema of uncertainty" through an examination of the crime serials of Louis Feuillade and the work of actress Musidora.

Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.

The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.