Book interviews tagged Gender

The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It
- ISBN: 978 1 59020 063 6
- featured in: Critical feminist media theory as parenting manualDecember 5, 2008

Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 571 21199 9
- featured in: The trumpet as a force in people’s livesDecember 26, 2008

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5323 2 (pb)
- featured in: One of Europe’s great modern cities through the lens of women’s urban spaces, both imaginary and physicalFebruary 13, 2009

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
- ISBN: 978 1 59102 672 3
- featured in: Retelling the History of AdvertisingFebruary 17, 2009

Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009

More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
- ISBN: 978 1 59726 019 0 hb
- featured in: Reproductive rights are the single most catalytic ingredient of environmental and social sustainabilityMarch 27, 2009

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009

Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 5945 2
- featured in: Remain vigilant about the continuing mysteries of sexJuly 29, 2009

Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- ISBN: 978 0801446382
- featured in: The Soviet automobile adapted to Soviet circumstances as much as it provoked adaptationAugust 3, 2009

Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- ISBN: 978 0226322438
- featured in: Mapping the relationship between racial formation and sexual classification in the United StatesAugust 5, 2009

On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009

Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotions, Culture, and Film
- ISBN: 978 0195371314 hb
- featured in: How we process films by means of what I call the mental PECMA flowAugust 21, 2009

Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN: 978 1584657736
- featured in: The honeymoon helped to consummate the romance of consumptionSeptember 28, 2009

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York
- ISBN: 978 0812241600
- featured in: Market booms, whether in the 1740s or in the 1990s, are largely imaginaryOctober 2, 2009

Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13818 3
- featured in: Reflection on the necessity to depoliticize the veilOctober 5, 2009

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
- ISBN: 978 0822345855
- featured in: How black people, once slaves to fashion, have made fashion their slaveOctober 16, 2009

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009

At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy
- ISBN: 978 0300113983
- featured in: The legal idea of home is being transformed, and it mattersDecember 4, 2009

On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State
- ISBN: 978 0231147224
- featured in: Exposing the biased and gendered foundations of the modern political stateDecember 7, 2009

Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
- ISBN: 978-0295989457 (hb)
- featured in: The mix of brilliant art and repugnant politics compelled me to write this bookDecember 23, 2009

Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain
- ISBN: 978 0791476574
- featured in: We inherited our obsession with being “over the hill” from the nineteenth centuryJanuary 13, 2010

The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Public Sphere
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4645 6 pb
- featured in: In Mexico, honor and even violence helped build an autonomous space for political debateFebruary 10, 2010

Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27344 4
- featured in: A story that Mark Twain was determined no one would ever tellMarch 15, 2010

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- ISBN: 978 1405126359
- featured in: She is the literary equivalent of the Mona Lisa’s smile: absence is her essenceMarch 17, 2010

America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force
- ISBN: 978 0674035362
- featured in: The Army’s role is not limited to military mattersMarch 19, 2010

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0393066753
- featured in: The Disco 1970s were, in fact, the combustible yearsMarch 29, 2010

Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- ISBN: 978 0 465 00921 3
- featured in: We must reject extreme political rhetoric
June 7, 2010

Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition
- ISBN: 978 0521896450
- featured in: How and why legendary figures are needed to tell historical storiesAugust 9, 2010