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This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving together these women's voices with an accessible, cutting-edge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a resilient, resourceful, and courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values, and creating positive new lives for themselves and their children. What emerges from this penetrating study is a clear message about what all families-two-parent as well as single parent-must have to succeed: decent jobs at a living wage, comprehensive health care, and preschool and after-school care. In a final chapter, Sidel gives a broad political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the U.S. to the social policies and ideologies of other countries.

Single mothers --- Welfare recipients --- Mothers --- Single parents --- Single women --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- america. --- american dream. --- childrearing. --- class differences. --- divorce. --- emotional. --- family relationships. --- gender studies. --- historical analysis. --- modern motherhood. --- moms. --- motherhood. --- nonfiction. --- nontraditional families. --- parenthood. --- political analysis. --- politics of parenthood. --- raising children. --- separation. --- single motherhood. --- single mothers. --- single parenting. --- social classes. --- social policies. --- sociological perspective. --- sociologists. --- united states. --- widows. --- women.

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This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion. In what becomes a profoundly unsettling counter-history of the United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong with the urban poor. The Ishmaels, actually white Christians, were later celebrated in the 1970s as the founders of the country's first African American Muslim community. This bizarre and fascinating saga reveals how class, race, religion, and science have shaped the nation's history and myths.

Eugenics --- History. --- McCulloch, Oscar C. --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american society. --- african american muslim community. --- americas worst family. --- christianity. --- class differences. --- class in america. --- counter history. --- eugenics movement. --- family. --- indiana. --- indianapolis. --- islam. --- myths. --- patriarch. --- poor white family. --- poverty. --- race in america. --- religion in america. --- religion. --- revolutionary war. --- scapegoat. --- science. --- social rebellion. --- stranger than fiction. --- the ishmaels. --- united states of america. --- urban poor.

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White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles.Tracing the discourses and practices of cultural and political elites and the responses of the nascent film industry, Grieveson reveals how these interactions had profound effects on the shaping of film content, form, and, more fundamentally, the proposed social function of cinema: how cinema should function in society, the uses to which it might be put, and thus what it could or would be. Policing Cinema develops new perspectives for the understanding of censorship and regulation and the complex relations between governance and culture. In this work, Grieveson offers a compelling analysis of the forces that shaped American cinema and its role in society.

Motion pictures --- Censorship --- History. --- african americans. --- american cinema. --- american culture. --- birth of a nation. --- censorship. --- cinema historians. --- class differences. --- controversial films. --- cultural history. --- early 20th century. --- film content. --- film culture. --- film industry. --- film regulations. --- film scholars. --- film studies. --- gender roles. --- governance and culture. --- immigration issues. --- nonfiction. --- policing art. --- political elites. --- power of cinema. --- prize fights. --- racism. --- role of cinema. --- sex scandals. --- slave films. --- social function. --- social history. --- social justice. --- textbooks.

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Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and good manners for subway travel. Together, they show that etiquette is much more than fussy rules for behavior. In fact the idiom of manners, packaged in conduct literature, reveals much about gender and class difference, notions of national identity, the dynamics of subversion and conformity, and more. This richly detailed work reveals how manners give meaning to everyday life and extraordinary occasions, and how they can illuminate larger social and cultural transformations.

Power (Social sciences) --- Sex role --- Etiquette --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- advice literature. --- asia scholars. --- behavior guides. --- class differences. --- conformity. --- cultural transformations. --- culture studies. --- early modern period. --- etiquette guides. --- everyday life. --- gay bars. --- geisha party. --- gender differences. --- gender norms. --- gender studies. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese society. --- modern japan. --- national identity. --- nonfiction. --- power dynamics. --- self help guides. --- social analysis. --- social etiquette. --- social history. --- subversion. --- subway travel.

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This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by cultural historians: while made during a period of totalitarian government, these films are neither propagandistic nor openly "Fascist." Instead, the Italian Fascist regime attempted to build ideological consensus by erasing markers of class and regional difference and by circulating terms for an imaginary national identity. Cinema and Fascism investigates the complex relationship between the totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, and offers new insights into this important but neglected period in cinema history.

Motion pictures --- Fascism and motion pictures --- History. --- Social aspects --- anti fascism. --- class differences. --- cultural studies. --- fascism. --- fascist era. --- fascist sports. --- film history. --- film industry. --- film studies. --- historical memory. --- historiography. --- hollywood. --- ideology. --- industrialization. --- interwar years. --- italian cinema. --- italian fascist regime. --- italian film history. --- italian film. --- italian filmmaking. --- italy. --- leisure time. --- movie studies. --- mussolini. --- national body. --- national identity. --- neorealism. --- political. --- politics. --- propaganda. --- readership. --- regional differences. --- spectatorship. --- totalitarian government.