Through a study of the U.S. Capitol and its artworks, Fryd (art history, Vanderbilt U.) sheds light on the racist attitudes toward African Americans and Native Americans that the art and architecture
As part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and the legal definitions of rape and incest and to shift the dominant
Between the two world wars, middle-class America experienced a "marriage crisis" that filled the pages of the popular press. Divorce rates were rising, birthrates falling, and women were entering the
The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understan
