Gender Paradoxes in Strip Clubs
October 29, 2010
An interview with Kim Price-Glynn about her new book, Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (Intersections) Strip Club takes a different approach to studying sex work. “Most of the… READ MORE
Month: October 2010
Interview: Asian-Americans in the Segregated South
October 25, 2010
Author Leslie Bow sat down with Wisconsin World to discuss her new book, Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South. WW: In the book, you mention… READ MORE
A Paranormal Belief for Every Religion
October 21, 2010
Continuing our posts on our new book Paranormal America, attached to this post you will find a table linking paranormal beliefs to various religions in America. Catholics, Protestants and Jews… READ MORE
Who Doesn’t Believe in Big Foot?
October 19, 2010
A review in the Washington Post Book World picked three new books about UFOs, and it led off with a review of our title: UFOs exist — about that we… READ MORE
Some Free Faces of America
October 15, 2010
This week, three excerpts have one up online from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts. Malcolm Gladwell, at The Root. This means… READ MORE
Peeing is Political
October 12, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Ed catches up with Harvey Molotch and Laura Norén, editors of Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis)…. READ MORE
NYTimes: The Guantanamo Lawyers Show America’s Moral Fiber
October 7, 2010
Richard Bernstein, who writes the “Letters from America” column in the New York Times, has a fantastic review of The Guantanamo Lawyers, ed. By Jonathan Hafetz and Mark Denbeaux, as… READ MORE
Cary Nelson: Your Children Need Professors With Tenure
October 6, 2010
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cary Nelson, author of No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom, explains why we should give professors more job security: “So what?” you… READ MORE