Engaging with cultural history, political anthropology, and critical, feminist, and queer theory, Guynn shows that french farce does not pander to the rabble in order to cultivate acquiescence or curb dissent. Rather, it uses the tools of comic theater—parody and satire, imitation and exaggeration, cross-dressing and masquerade—to address the urgent issues its spectators faced in their everyday lives: economic inequality and authoritarian rule, social justice and ethical renewal, sacramental devotion and sacerdotal corruption, and heterosocial relations and household politics.
The first comprehensive history of software patenting, Software Rights explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Author Gerardo Con Díaz, assistant professor of science and technology studies, reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software.
In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces.
In The Simpsons’ Beloved Springfield: Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All , Karma Waltonen, University Writing Program continuing lecturer, and Denise Du Vernay explore the many ways in which The Simpsons reflects everyday life through its exploration of gender roles, music, death, food politics, science and religion, anxiety, friendship and more.
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory Downs, associate professor of history argues that the war did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. Instead, a second phase commenced which lasted until 1871. Using its war powers, the U.S. Army oversaw an ambitious occupation, stationing tens of thousands of troops in hundreds of outposts across the defeated South.
As the movement to remove monuments to slaveholders and imperialists from public spaces gains traction, Contested Commemoration is a timely collection of essays co-edited by University Writing Program continuing lecturer Melissa M. Bender. The essays raise questions about how well the U.S. has come to terms with the more controversial episodes of its history through commemorative acts.
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family by Bruce D. Haynes, professor of sociology, with Syma Solovitch. This memoir tells Haynes’ family story—beginning with his grandparents, National Urban League co-founder George Edmund Haynes and children’s book author Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
This concise handbook written by University Writing Program faculty Katie Arosteguy, Alison Bright and Brenda Rinard, prepares educators to write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential and stakeholder writing.
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification by Eddy U, professor of sociology, redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. The book is the co-winner of the 2020 Barrington Moore Book Award from the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology.
In The Second American Revolution , history professor Gregory Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its Constitution. More than a struggle of brother against brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that centered in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain.
