Wayne State University Press
Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles. The Press disseminates research, advances education, and serves the local community while expanding the international reputation of the Press and the University.
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Mothers of Invention
Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor
Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.
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ISBN: 9780814348536
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ISBN: 9780814348529
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ISBN: 9780814348543
The Outer Limits
Provides a history and criticism of an important disrupting force in early science-fiction television programming.
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ISBN: 9780814347454
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ISBN: 9780814347461
Detroit's Wayne State University Law School
Future Leaders in the Legal Community
Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.
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ISBN: 9780814347614
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ISBN: 9780814347621
Woman Up
Invoking Feminism in Quality Television
Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.
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ISBN: 9780814346556
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ISBN: 9780814346563
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ISBN: 9780814346570
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Lyrical, hilarious, and heartbreaking collection exploring Asian American identity, love, community, and power.
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ISBN: 9780814349410
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ISBN: 9780814349427
The Americans
Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama.
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ISBN: 9780814347430
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ISBN: 9780814347447
"No Equal Justice"
The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.
The story of Civil Rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion.
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ISBN: 9780814348765
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ISBN: 9780814348772
Cannibalizing Queer
Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015
Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.
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ISBN: 9780814346099
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ISBN: 9780814346105
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ISBN: 9780814346112
Hawaii Five-O
A lively examination of the classic 1960s American crime show.
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ISBN: 9780814344323
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ISBN: 9780814344330
100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814348871
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ISBN: 9780814348888
Disputed Messiahs
Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation
Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.
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ISBN: 9780814341643
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ISBN: 9780814348611
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ISBN: 9780814341650
London Yiddishtown
East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky
Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.
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ISBN: 9780814348482
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ISBN: 9780814348475
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ISBN: 9780814348499
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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780814346303
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ISBN: 9780814346310
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ISBN: 9780814346327
Eye of the Taika
New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi
Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style.
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ISBN: 9780814345320
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ISBN: 9780814345337
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ISBN: 9780814345344
The Angel and the Cholent
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives
A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.
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ISBN: 9780814348857
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ISBN: 9780814348840
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ISBN: 9780814348864
Breaking Bad
Captivating analysis of the acclaimed TV series and its portrait of societal decline.
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ISBN: 9780814342565
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ISBN: 9780814342558
Women Writing Wonder
An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.
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ISBN: 9780814345009
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ISBN: 9780814345016
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ISBN: 9780814345023
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Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
Exploration of Carrie Fisher as star, author, comedian, and iconic personification of Princess Leia.
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ISBN: 9780814346853
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ISBN: 9780814346860
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ISBN: 9780814346877
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.
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ISBN: 9780814332252
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ISBN: 9780814332245
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ISBN: 9780814348895
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.
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ISBN: 9780814336304
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ISBN: 9780814348819
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ISBN: 9780814336311