Stanford University Press

11/01/2024

Why America Needs Good Government

10/31/2024

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. In Digital Victorians, Paul Fyfe argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians

"This work offers an exciting new lens for understanding the Victorian era. Fyfe ranks among the leaders in bringing together Victorian studies and the digital humanities, and this work shows him at the top of his game."
—Adrian Wisnicki, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

10/30/2024

In Nocturnal Seeing, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay of ethics, politics, and theology.
https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/nocturnal-seeing

"With his characteristic breadth and depth of learning, Wolfson introduces us to three subtle, original thinkers. He makes a convincing case that these Jewish women deserve to be understood as philosophers in the most profound sense of the term."
—Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University

10/29/2024

"As polls in the battleground states shift and sway, and pundits warn that the margin will be razor thin, escaping anxiety over the 2024 election has become impossible."

Rena Steinzor wrote on the SUP blog about the upcoming election and her new book American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy.

Why America Needs Good Government

10/29/2024

More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it. Hot Flash by Emily Gold Waldman, Bridget Crawford, and Naomi Cahn explores the culturally specific stereotypes that surround menopause as well as how menopause is treated in law and medicine.
https://www.sup.org/books/law/hot-flash

"Hot Flash is revelatory, providing a much-needed, definitive guide to legal and cultural perspectives on menopause. Finally, a book that offers concrete suggestions for moving the needle forward so that we and our institutions see menopause as a normal, expected stage of life for half the population."
—Deborah Copaken, NYT bestselling author of Ladyparts

10/28/2024

Devastating hurricanes, massive public debt, and a global pandemic make up the continuous crises that plague Puerto Rico. These events should not be understood as a random string of compounding misfortune. Rather, as demonstrated by Jose Atiles in Crisis by Design, they result from the social, legal, and political structure of colonialism
https://www.sup.org/books/law/crisis-design

Atiles shows how administrations, through emergency powers and laws paired with the dynamics of wealth extraction, have served to sustain and exacerbate crises. More broadly, the Puerto Rican case provides insight into the role of law and emergency powers in other global south, Caribbean, and racialized and colonized countries. In these settings, Atiles contends, colonialism is the ongoing catastrophe.

10/24/2024

The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/business-transition

"Richly documented, The Business of Transition charts the profound transformations that affected the economic and political elites of one of the Mediterranean's great commercial hubs. Paris Papamichos Chronakis sheds new light on a singular chapter in the history of nationalism that reshaped the modern Jewish world."
—Francesca Trivellato, author of The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society

10/24/2024

Books in Brief Books by H&S faculty Submit information about a recent or forthcoming H&S faculty book How the New World Became Old by Caroline Winterer, History The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Against Constitutional Originalism by Jonathan G...

10/23/2024

In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working conditions, hiring practices, and, most important, worker actions and strikes at these oil projects. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/unruly-labor

"This is a beautifully written and fascinating account of labor action, solidarity, as well as fragmentation. Reading archival sources with an ethnographer's eye, Andrea Wright brings to life the connections and struggles of managers, officials, and workers that shaped the social worlds and hierarchies of the oil industry."
—Mandana Limbert, CUNY Graduate Center

10/22/2024

The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change.

10/22/2024

Kabbalah and Catastrophe uncovers the remarkable variety of ways that kabbalists deployed esoteric tradition to argue that God had not abandoned the Jews to the inscrutable forces of history.
https://www.sup.org/books/history/kabbalah-and-catastrophe

"It is a pleasure to read such an erudite work that is written in such an accessible manner. Lachter distills a great deal of information from notoriously complex texts to illuminate the kabbalistic tradition on history and suffering."
—Jonathan Ray, Georgetown University

10/17/2024

10/16/2024

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Join + for ’s book club on OBIU.org today from 12-1 on “Belonging Without Othering” by + Stephen Menendian via !

10/16/2024

Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/disorder-and-diagnosis

"Laura Goffman's exemplary work achieves a bottom-up narrative of healthcare and disease and a multifaceted history of medicine as experienced by patients and practitioners alike. Analyzing together gender, labor, migration, traditional healing, and scientific experimentation, Disorder and Diagnosis is essential reading for any historian."
—Elise Burton, University of Toronto

10/16/2024

Millennial North Korea traces how the rapidly expanding media networks in North Korea impact their millennial generation, especially their perspective on the outside world.

"Suk-Young Kim shatters the monolithic image of North Korea in this brilliant study of how millennials find space for self-expression even in the most repressive society on the planet. Covering everything from cell phones to K-pop, Millennial North Korea shows how young people are quietly and creatively subverting the system from within. The best book on real life in North Korea since Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy."
—John Delury, Yonsei University

10/15/2024

Join us this Thursday, October 17th at 6pm for a conversation with Florian Klinger on "Aesthetic Action" from Stanford University Press. He will be joined in conversation with Anton Ford and Kai Ihns. A Q&A will follow the discussion.

RSVP Here: https://airtable.com/appAkPEjhwwUOo9j6/shr3lVkaUNQDj5Cuc

10/15/2024

In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship, Samantha A. Vortherms examines the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou)—and uncovers how autocrats use such institutions to create particularistic membership in citizenship.
https://www.sup.org/books/politics/manipulating-authoritarian-citizenship

"A sophisticated, analytically astute, and deeply informed study of local citizenship regimes in China. The book provides multiple new insights into the variable mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of migrant outsiders moving into the cities of this authoritarian state. It stands as the definitive study of its subject."
—Dorothy J. Solinger, author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market

10/14/2024

Join Haub Law Professors Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman and Professor Naomi Cahn from the University of Virginia School of Law, for the launch of their book, Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It.

This free online book launch event is open to the public and will feature a panel of commentators discussing the culturally specific stereotypes that surround menopause as well as how menopause is treated in law and medicine.

The event is sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law LawTech Center and co-sponsored by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the UVA Family Law Center.

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10/10/2024

Adrian Daub in conversation with Moira Donegan about his book The Cancel Culture Panic at City Lights Bookstore

10/10/2024

The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking to***co, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet. Through the example of the pamphlet, The Order and Disorder of Communication by Nir Shafir investigates the political and cultural institutions used to navigate, regulate, and encourage the circulation of information in a society in which all books were copied by hand. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/order-and-disorder-communication

"Rich in ideas and lucid in argument, Nir Shafir's book has manifold implications for understanding the early modern Muslim world. By comparing thousands of manuscripts from Southeast Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, Shafir shows how the Ottoman 'communication order' enabled polemics to spread polarization, misinformation, and, paradoxically, disorder among the reading public."
—Nile Green, author of How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

10/09/2024

10/09/2024

In his recent memoir, the alumnus and historian reflects on how the multicultural experiences he had growing up have influenced him.

10/09/2024

Through stories of Lebanese couples, Love Across Difference challenges readers to rethink categories of difference and imagine possibilities for social change. Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/love-across-difference

"Lara Deeb masterfully shows how sect 'feels real' and is maintained through macroeconomic and political dynamics and in everyday life. Love Across Difference details the complex and intersectional meaning of sect in social life, offering a nuanced analysis rooted in extensive field research across Lebanon."
—Melani Cammett, Harvard University