The Risks and Rewards of High Heels
October 12, 2009
From a NYTimes roundtable on Why We Love the Shoes That Hurt Us, a piece by Jennifer Scanlon, author of The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader. The Risks, the Rewards… READ MORE
October 12, 2009
From a NYTimes roundtable on Why We Love the Shoes That Hurt Us, a piece by Jennifer Scanlon, author of The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader. The Risks, the Rewards… READ MORE
October 6, 2009
By Kathleen Fitzpatrick, author of the forthcoming book Planned Obsolescence (Fall 2010). The crisis facing scholarly publishing has gotten a lot of discussion in recent days, and it’s frequently been… READ MORE
October 5, 2009
Reviews of two of our biggest fall titles are in the latest Publishers Weekly. The Left at War by Michael Bérubé. Fresh off the 2008 election and anticipating an ascendancy… READ MORE
September 29, 2009
Author Miriam Forman-Brunell talks on the Brian Lehrer Show about the history of babysitting in America (also the topic of her book).
September 28, 2009
On September 17th and 18th, Jeanne Flavin, author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America and 2009 Fulbright Award recipient, led all-day workshops with 67… READ MORE
September 25, 2009
Another great interview with Prof. Jeffries about Bloody Lowndes, this one from GritTV.
September 24, 2009
In November, we have the privilege of publishing Michael Berube’s next great work of cultural studies, The Left at War. However, Michael couldn’t help himself from getting in the ring… READ MORE
September 21, 2009
A review of Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx by Constance Rosenblum appeared in the 9/20/09 issue of the New York… READ MORE