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The Diamonds are a Chicago Street gang whose members are second-generation Puerto Rican youths. For Felix Padilla, the young men who join the Diamonds have made a logical choice. The gang is an alternative and dependable route to emotional support, self-respect, material goods, and upward mobility. Although Padilla shares the same ethnic background as the gang members and also grew up in a Chicago barrio, gaining the trust of the Diamonds was not easy. Eventually, however, he was able to get close enough to the members to interview and observe them. In his book, he shows us his decision to join the Diamonds, but does not paint a romanticized picture.

This revised edition (originally published in 1959) of the famous biography of Columbus by his son Ferdinand was published to coincide with the Columbus quincentenary celebrations. Benjamin Keen's introduction traces the changing assessments of Columbus and his Discovery over almost five centuries.

The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller is remembered for her groundbreaking work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of men and women. In this collection, the full range of her literary career is represented from her earliest poetry to her final dispatch from revolutionary Italy.

Examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1945. Fraser M. Ottanelli explains the appeal of the CPUSA and its emergence as the foremost vehicle of left-wing radicalism during these years.

Taking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared, and how it takes crucially different forms for women and men. Drawing on interviews with adults who are divorcing, she treats their accounts as texts to be interpreted, as templates for understanding contemporary beliefs about personal relationships.

In this work the author explores the social and political assumptions of biology, and genetics in particular. She examines the ways biologists use scientific language, use genetics, and apply it to human situations, especially to women's situations.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, is a low-budget science fiction film that has become a classic. In the film, the aliens - who look just like earthlings - replace people by growing as their doubles from womb-like pods. The book examines various interpretations of the film.

Explores some of the cultural and political implications of an anthropological political economy. In William Roseberry's view, too few of these implications have been explored by authors who dismiss the very possibility of a political economic understanding of culture.

Traces the evolution of the New Left movement through the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and SDS's community organization projects. For Wini Breines, the movement's goal of participatory decision-making, even when it was not achieved, made up for its failure to take practical and direct action.

A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American women is of lives lived in naive, domestic peace - the girls of Little Women. Nothing could be less true of Harriet Prescott Spofford's stories. In fact, her editor at the Atlantic Monthly at first refused to believe that an unworldly woman from New England had written them.

Penny Van Esterik takes the reader beyond the Nestle boycott and the activist campaigns against infant-formula manufacturers to the issues underlying the controversy. She shows how the controversy is embedded in the problem of urban poverty, the empowerment of women, the medicalization of infant feeding, and the commoditization of infant foods. She argues that the choice between bottle feeding and breast feeding has significant implications for developing countries. Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy raises a host of important questions: why has there been no consistent feminist position? How did infant feeding become medicalized in developing and developed countries? What mechanisms encourage the technology and taste transfer necessary for the expansion of bottle feeding?

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyses not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published.

This volume offers a continuity script including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakespearean sources. It also includes the editor's critical introduction on Welles' transformation of Shakespeare.

"This welcome study of nonmedical healing among upper-middle-class and middle-class persons in Essex County, New Jersey, clearly shows how individuals become attracted to and influenced by alternative healing techniques." - Choice

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Brings together for the first time a variety of Louisa May Alcott's journalistic, satiric, feminist, and sensation texts. Elaine Showalter has provided an excellent introduction and notes to the collection.

An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.

Argues that the great increase of tuberculosis was intimately connected with the rise of an industrial, urbanized society and - a much more controversial idea when this book first appeared forty years ago - that the progress of medical science had very little to do with the marked decline in tuberculosis in the twentieth century.

This study of ""The Marriage of Maria Braun"" contains the editor's introduction, a chronology, a biographical sketch of Fassbinder, a full transcript of the film as released, notes on the shooting script, interviews, reviews and commentaries.

Avis is a nineteenth-century painter who strives to keep herself free of marriage and entanglements. Although Avis declares and her fiance agrees that she must not "resign my profession as an artist," the reality greets her with their first house. Through her life, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps describes the struggle of a woman to be wife, mother, and artist. How modern is the "modern man" and how much do women's roles ever change? This book, written more than one hundred years ago, will still seem very real to many women today.

This study of ""Touch of Evil"" includes the continuity script, a biography of Orson Welles, an interview with Welles by Andre Bazih, an interview with Charlton Heston, excerpts from several critical essays, major reviews, a filmography and a bibliography.

On Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Mills, his choir singer and lover, were found near a lovers' lane in New Jersey. Four years later, the minister's widow and her brothers were tried for the murders and acquitted. Renowned criminal lawyer William M. Kunstler tells the tale.

A wonderful guide through New Jersey, the "cockpit" of the American Revolution.

Thousands of schoolchildren have read the adventures of Dickon, the English boy who was rescued from a shipwreck by the Lenape Indians, told in The Indians of New Jersey by M.R. Harrington. Now they and others can follow Dickon's further adventures in The Iroquois Trail.