Lexington Books

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge...

Metaphors animate Shakespeare's corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail,...

This book serves as a concise exploration of the Shâmaran's enduring presence, resilience, and the ongoing efforts to reclaim her cultural significance from the shadows of colonization. Thus the...

The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community...

Shifting Production to Southeast Asia: Electronics Transnational Corporations Moving to Vietnam since the 2000s explores how a labor-intensive industry has been expanded from the 'World Factory' -...

This book focuses on the work of Miriam Toews, which gives voice to generations of Mennonite women who have been silenced as part of the official Mennonite story. Rita Dirks argues that through...

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than...

This book examines prolonged singlehood in Religious Zionist society, a community that upholds conservative family values. Engelberg argues that late modern individualization processes, including...

This work considers the evolution of American notions of motherhood through sitcoms, examining depictions of "good" and "bad" mothers alongside the ways these depictions have diversified over time...

This book examines the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa both during the pandemic and in the post-COVID era. The contributors analyze the regulations...

This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The intertwined experiences of six Catholic women...

This book explores gender debates on African social media platforms and the political, social, and cultural discourses surrounding them. It examines topics such as gender-based violence, gender in...

Social Media and Integrated Marketing Communication: A Rhetorical Approach explores social media in the areas of corporate identity, brand narratives, and crisis response from a rhetorical...

This multidisciplinary collection explores the ethics of social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on misinformation, truth, well-being, and authenticity.Author: Pamela A Zeiser,...

This book builds on existing conversations surrounding millennials and media use by examining Generation Z's engagement with new media technologies and comparing it to that of millennials. Ahmet Atay...

Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion demonstrates various interpretations and phenomena of the "environmental hope" from a multi-disciplinary perspective to enhance the prosocial...

The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of...

Analyzing Sofia Coppola's films from The Virgin Suicides (1999) to Priscilla (2023), Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far) employs her filmography as a reflection of the evolution of Generation X's...

This book discusses religious plurality and post-traditional perspectives on emergent forms of sacred sensibility, particularly for those identifying as "spiritual but not religious". The view is...

This book explores Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment and how it integrates the South Slavic Kolo dance, cultural memory, and women's experiences to empower trauma survivors. It challenges misconceptions...

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe...

Journeying by Jesus, Apollonius, and associates was necessary for spreading good news and tangible benefits to the world in the first century. Spectral Lives by Luke and Philostratus studies how they...

Spinoza's Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing interprets and defends Spinoza's God/Nature argument using speculative metaphysics as a method and illustrates the practice and...

Applying psychoanalysis to sport and exploring how sport can raise questions for psychoanalysis, this book provides novel examinations of sport and associated topics, including race/ethnicity,...

This book examines Stalin's increasing popularity in his native Georgia and in Putin's Russia. Through extensive field research, political commentary, and autobiographical elements from the...

This book is about staying together, living together, the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, non-human studies, and nature culture...

This book presents evidence that verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices towards Muslim women in the United State and that social liberals, not social conservatives,...

This book analyzes the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years to show how speakers of traditionally stigmatized dialects are represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked...

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey. The interpretations in this book shed new light on...

Power inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation...