Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.

"His work contributes to the ongoing interest in the history of women and in the history of resistance."--Jacket.

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.

An innovative analysis of how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs

This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. The volume includes a contribution from Stephen Ackroyd and adds to the emerging body of evidence that disturbs assumptions of consensus and conformity in organizations.

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Explores the Old Testament's prophetic cry against materialism, consumerism, violence, and oppression