Bücher der Reihe Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyses criticism of the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work examines the dramatic changes in American women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995. The study focuses on the stand-up of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne, and on the character comedy of Lily Tomlin.

This book examines both 'old media' treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, as well as 'new' media interactive discussions of them via the Internet and electronic mail.

This work examines food scenes in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests, and to reveal how food communicates values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities, and to American society.

Exploring gender and religion in the 17th century in three American Colonies, with a dominant religious tradition, this book shows how women who were denied access to formal political structures found ways to assert themselves in public spheres.

Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts. This book chronicles the Footes' struggle, examining their efforts on freedom of expression and women's rights, and the larger issues surrounding free speech and censorship in the Gilded Age of American history.

A study of cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data were analysed to determine that women who bore illegitimate children were punished more severely than their male partners.

Re-evaluates the Red Scare that followed World War One in light of the new methods of political repression developed in New York, methods that established a pattern for future episodes of intolerance.

An exploration of the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women. It is a must-have book for anyone interested in women's history, social history, military history or material culture.

This book examines the intersections of representations of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary US men.

Explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses.

This title analyses changing opinions about the attitudes concerning the nature of children and the legal capacities of children using criminal court records, legislative petitions and actions and public perceptions.

This study examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture, including activities such as dieting and muscle-building. Hollywood's long-standing prominence on the world stage makes it an ideal place to begin such an examination.

This work explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.

Explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. This study examines the promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual communities organized individual productive efforts.

This work examines how libraries could respond to their communities need through the use of numerous primary and secondary sources during World War II in America.

Examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's radically egalitarian practice through her involvement in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, Reconstruction, and into the Jim Crow era, placing her work firmly in black-nationalist lineages. This book contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as a theorist of African-American feminism.

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas.

Focuses on how John Brown - radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter - inspired America's most significant intellects, such as Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Howells, Emerson and Thoreau, to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.

Examines women unionists' life histories through the lens of narrative analysis, interpreting their multiple perspectives as four coherent discourse communities: social activists, union feminists, women martyrs, and women whose identities are defined by their work in non-traditional fields.

This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West - the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.

Focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. The author argues that it is impossible to consider what the 'South' and what 'southernness' mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region.

Recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. This book tells how their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is still significant if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America.

Creating connections between language and literary studies and exploring the intersection of ideologies of language, gender, and nation, this book shows how American discussions of language in various forms have often disguised deeper social and political concerns about the voices of women, African Americans, and immigrants in national life.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.