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Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond Following in the footsteps of the filmmakers whose work it features—including Miranda July, Janie Geiser, Tracey Moffatt, Sally Potter, Cindy Sherman, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sadie Benning, Agn&egrav

The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970 The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important chapter in the story of American democracy. American Vanguard is the first and only history of the union available for both general and academi

Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored through novels, film, tele

The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems.  Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as well as an internationally known poet, off

The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 1: 1913-1934 Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of th

The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann Facing the Glass Booth, being published in English for the first time, is a detailed account of Eichmann’s trial by the poet and journalist Haim Gouri, who was assigned to cover the event by the

Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded def

Cinemas of Girlhood From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Whether a girl is taught that "there is no place