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Porno Chic and the Sex Wars

American Sexual Representation in the 1970s

Edited by Carolyn Bronstein, Whitney Strub ...

For many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.This volume places pornography at the ... Read more

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For many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.This volume places pornography at the
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Digital Workflow in Reconstructive Dentistry

Edited by Wael Att, Siegbert Witkowski, Jörg R. Strub ...

Digital Workflow in Reconstructive Dentistry is the result of efforts made by the academic team at the Department of Prosthodontics, University Hospital of Freiburg. It aims to build a fundamental understanding of the general principles, science, and clinics of digital dental medicine. The information provided within these pages summarizes the various components of the digital workflow in ... Read more

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Digital Workflow in Reconstructive Dentistry is the result of efforts made by the academic team at the Department of Prosthodontics, University Hospital of Freiburg. It aims to build a fundamental understanding of the general principles, science, and clinics of digital dental medicine. The information provided within these pages summarizes the various components of the digital workflow in
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Films That Explode Like Grenades

Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema

by Whitney Strub ...

The definitive portrait of independent filmmaker Robert Kramer that traces the revolutionary dreams of the Left from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century.Robert Kramer (1939–99) was the emblematic filmmaker of the late-1960s New Left in the United States. Yet because most of his three dozen films have been out of circulation for decades, he has long been neglected by film historians ... Read more

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The definitive portrait of independent filmmaker Robert Kramer that traces the revolutionary dreams of the Left from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century.Robert Kramer (1939–99) was the emblematic filmmaker of the late-1960s New Left in the United States. Yet because most of his three dozen films have been out of circulation for decades, he has long been neglected by film historians
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Advances in European Geothermal Research

Proceedings of the Second International Seminar on the Results of EC Geothermal Energy Research, held in Strasbourg, 4–6 March 1980

Edited by A.S. Strub, P. Ungemach ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
The first crisis in energy prices was undoubtedly a strong stimulus for the involvement of the Commission of the European Communities in research and development on alternative energy sources. Indeed, the need to overcome difficulties faced by the Community as a whole, particularly those resulting from its severely unbalanced energy supply, made a common Community approach seem especially apt. ... Read more

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The first crisis in energy prices was undoubtedly a strong stimulus for the involvement of the Commission of the European Communities in research and development on alternative energy sources. Indeed, the need to overcome difficulties faced by the Community as a whole, particularly those resulting from its severely unbalanced energy supply, made a common Community approach seem especially apt.
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Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

by Sean Strub ...

The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the US Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: ... Read more

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The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the US Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret:
... Read more
Queer Newark

Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community

by Whitney Strub, Yamil Avivi, Jason Chernesky, LeiLani Dowell, Anna Lvovsky, Queer Newark Oral History Project, Mary Rizzo, Christina Strasburger, Dominique Rocker0, Peter Savastano1, Timothy Stewart-Winter2, Kristyn Scorsone3, Danielle M. Shields4, Carse Ramos5 ...

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2024)Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a ... Read more

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NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2024)Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a
... Read more
Elizabeth Detention Center

A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States

by Ulla D. Berg, Carolina Sánchez Boe, Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley0, Sarah Tosh1, Abdulai Bah2, Marguerite É Marty3, William Westerman4, Seth Kaper-Dale5, Edafe Okporo6, Kristyn Scorsone7, Pina N. Cirillo8, Kathy O'Leary9, Katherine M. Sastre0, Deirdre Conlon1, Nancy Hiemstra2, Julio Oseguera3, K. Sebastian León4, Xiomara Flores5, Mary Rizzo6, Whitney Strub7, Jessica Rofé8, Gloria d'Alessio9, Gabriela Viera0, Silky Shah1 ...

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought ... Read more

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The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought
... Read more
Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World

An Introduction through Film

by Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, Anthony Perron, Maria Americo, Daniel Armenti, Lucy C. Barnhouse, Christopher Bonura, Julie K. Chamberlin0, Celia Chazelle1, Rachel Ellen Clark2, Casey Ireland3, Henry Ansgar Kelly4, Sarah C. Luginbill5, Coral Lumbley6, Sara McDougall7, Nathan Melson8, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia9, David M. Perry0, Asif A. Siddiqi1, Eugene Smelyansky2, Lorraine Kochanske Stock3, Spencer Strub4 ...

Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic “legal medievalism,” or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have used the “Middle Ages” to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the twenty chapters in Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World represents an original contribution ... Read more

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This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic “legal medievalism,” or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have used the “Middle Ages” to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the twenty chapters in Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World represents an original contribution
... Read more
Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture

by Claire Strom, Stephanie Chalifoux, Francesca Gamber, Whitney Strub, Richard Hourigan, Riche Richardson, Jerry Watkins, Katherine Henninger, Abigail Parsons, Matt Miller, Krystal Humphreys ...

In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race, gender, history, and social and political forces.The twelve essays in ... Read more

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In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the U.S. South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race, gender, history, and social and political forces.The twelve essays in
... Read more
Overlander-anecdotes

Gabi and Peter's experiences that will make you smile

by Peter Strub ...

An adventurous Swiss couple makes a bold decision: they want to conquer the world with their expedition vehicle "Globi" – across Africa, through South America, and on to the mystical Orient. Their goal: absolute freedom and independence. But unforeseen challenges put their nerves to the test – sometimes heated discussions with stubborn border officials, sometimes dangerous breakdowns in the middle ... Read more

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An adventurous Swiss couple makes a bold decision: they want to conquer the world with their expedition vehicle "Globi" – across Africa, through South America, and on to the mystical Orient. Their goal: absolute freedom and independence. But unforeseen challenges put their nerves to the test – sometimes heated discussions with stubborn border officials, sometimes dangerous breakdowns in the middle
... Read more
Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader

Lay Piety and Literature in Late Medieval England

by Spencer Strub ...

Series series The Middle Ages Series
An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading publicScorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how a cluster of rarely studied guides to the religious life helped forge a new identity in late medieval England. Lifting passages wholesale from texts originally intended only for holy virgins walled up in ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading publicScorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how a cluster of rarely studied guides to the religious life helped forge a new identity in late medieval England. Lifting passages wholesale from texts originally intended only for holy virgins walled up in
... Read more
Perversion for Profit

The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right

by Whitney Strub ...

While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and its attack on the "floodtide of filth" that was supposedly sweeping the nation. Antipornography campaigns became the New Right's political capital
... Read more

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