Lexington Books

In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills investigates women's experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author follows...

Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance...

Suffering in Anglophone Literatures engages with postclassical Trauma Studies and opens the traumatic envelope to embrace concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and...

This book explores the link between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Conference of 1848, and the Women's Suffrage Bill, unveiling Catherine Paine Blaine's journey within the...

Looking primarily at the twenty-first century boom in superhero media, this collection provides insights into the overlap between data, the internet, and the superhero. Multiple disciplinary...

What happens when one empire or hegemon cedes the global stage to a rising power? Supplanting Empires: Power Transitions Across Human History argues that, historically, such power transitions tend to...

Phrases like "scripture says" appear unremarkable, but citation formulae provide clues about matters as diverse as the media consciousness of the evangelists, emerging trinitarianism in Hebrews, and...

This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language, form, and content. They present their radical poems shedding rich insight on...

No study of Black people in America can be complete without considering how openly discriminatory tax laws helped establish a racial caste system in the United States, how they were designed to...

This book explores the stories of department chairs who led teacher-preparation programs framed around social justice and inclusivity. Smith-Gray develops a road map on how to effectively lead these...

Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and...

Teaching the Truth is geared to the Higher Education professor who challenges and prepares pre-service teachers to rethink how they teach history to young children. African American history is a...

Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets' archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that each poet...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely...

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan...

The U.S. Supreme Court is more important than ever in the lives of Americans. Its politicization, however, has hijacked its mission to provide equal justice under law. This book explains how...

This book examines the rise of identities and agents that were formed after the 1973 Yom Kippur War and highlights the effects they had on the formation of Israeli policy. This book forms a study...

The 2012 Republican nomination process went on longer than most pundits predicted early on. While Mitt Romney began the season as the prohibitive favorite, he was tested repeatedly by what was...

The scope of this book is the characterization of the template for the properly aesthetic experience, composed of the prerequisite (desire) and the three subsequent phases: excess, pause (rupture,...

The Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti: Lib?te ou Lanm?, Freedom or Death is an Afrocentric re-examination and interpretation around the historiography of the Haitian Revolution and provides an in-depth...

The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this...

This book examines European comic-books about bikers, unearthing a rich tapestry of creative ingenuity and ambiguous humor. Through narrative analysis, the author argues that these comics offer...

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures,...

This book examines the role that the American Film Institute had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a key moment of change in the history of American film. Gracia Ramirez provides a...

This book shows what it means to be an American philosopher by bringing key figures of contemporary American philosophy together to reflect upon the meaning and import of their life's work.Author:...

In The American YMCA and Russian Culture, Matthew Lee Miller explores the impact of the philanthropic activities of the Young Men's Christian Association on Russians during the late imperial and...

Addressing people in an age of faltering religious structures, C. G. Jung asserted the potential for bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and religious belief through analytical psychology...

This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes...

Today we live in what Ulrich Beck has aptly characterized as a "risk society" shaped by intensifying crises outside of our control and seemingly outside of our comprehension. The master narrative...

The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic...