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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the
invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be
pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the
privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That
answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive
lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave
gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over
information about women's bodies. However, while science so often
promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much
messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not
always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more
knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural
representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object
radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st
centuries. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay
series in the The Atlantic.
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material
from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key
grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of
academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics,
and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA,
and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and
each has been revised to include the latest updates. A companion
website provides a wealth of interactive exercises, information on
the CSE style of citation and documentation, and much more.
On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and
overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is
published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly
half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. That does not
change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date
is the content of the book. The seventh Canadian edition brings a
substantial re-organization of the contents under three headings:
Writing Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts.
Coverage of the MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation
has been substantially revised to reflect the most recent updates,
including the 2020 APA and 2021 MLA changes. As in earlier
editions, the Broadview Guide offers wide ranging coverage of
academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; and of writing
about literature. Coverage of personal and informal writing is
included for the first time-as is a sample literary essay in MLA
style (in addition to the sample MLA interdisciplinary essay). The
'How to be Good with Words' chapter (on issues of gender, race,
religion etc.) has been extensively revised, as has the material on
electronic etiquette.
The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe
v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were
ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the
early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with
our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and
individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns
to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the
controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by
polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed
doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was
represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to
treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian
Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid
and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race,
and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion
across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers
like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into
conversation with the era's films, newspaper articles, and activist
rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public
perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth
century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped
our very sense of what it means to be an American.
The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe
v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were
ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the
early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with
our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and
individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns
to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the
controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by
polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed
doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was
represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to
treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian
Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid
and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race,
and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion
across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers
like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into
conversation with the era's films, newspaper articles, and activist
rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public
perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth
century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped
our very sense of what it means to be an American.
"Even the most useful reference guides are not always, well, shall
we say, riveting. A refreshing exception is the new Broadview Guide
to Writing, which is smart, helpful, and even fun to read." -Gerald
Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say / I Say: The Moves
That Matter in Academic Writing Key Features -A coil-bound
reference text suitable for a range of introductory composition and
writing courses -Divided into three sections: Writing Processes
(including Research, Argumentation, and Style) Writing Mechanics
(Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation) Writing Contexts (Writing in
different academic disciplines, Forms and conventions, and
citation) -Comprehensive treatment of citation style guides, with
2016 MLA style updates -Expanded treatment of research methods,
argument structures, and writing in the workplace -A unique section
on "How to Be Good With Words"-issues of gender, race, class,
religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. -Expanded coverage
for those whose native language is not English -All-new chapter on
reading images -Extensive companion website featuring interactive
exercises Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced
and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is
published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly
half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. That does not
change with the new edition; what does change and stay up-to-date
is the content of the book. The sixth edition brings a substantial
re-organization of the contents under three headings: Writing
Processes, Writing Mechanics, and Writing Contexts. Coverage of
APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been
substantially expanded, and the MLA section has now been fully
revised to take into account all the 2016 changes. Also expanded is
coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of
writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate
quoted material into one's own work; of balance and parallelism;
and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The
chapter "Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual
Images" is entirely new to the sixth edition.
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