American Sexual Histories / Edition 2

by Elizabeth Reis

Overview

Provides approaches to: what produces and affects color; the description of color in words and numbers; arrangement of color in ordered systems; measurement of color with instruments; calculation of color differences and setting of color tolerances; colorants (dyes and pigments); color mixing and matching (visually and by computer); and recent advances and problem areas. Includes equations, tabulated data, and references updated through mid 1980.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901444339290
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2009) and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997).

Table of Contents

What is Color?
Describing Color
Color and Color-Difference Measurement
Colorants
The Coloring of Materials in Industry
Problems and Future Directions in Color Technology
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Author and Subject Indexes

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A comprehensive, eye-opening collection of essays and meaningful documents.  Elizabeth Reis forces us to reevaluate what we think we know about sex in American history.” – Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University

“This terrific book does two things at once. It shows why sexuality has become such an important window onto the American past. And it illustrates concretely how primary sources are transformed into history.” – Ellen Herman, University of Oregon

“An extremely useful survey of sexual history in the United States, representing the diversity of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and featuring an excellent selection of primary documents.”  – Susan Stryker, University of Arizona

“Although my students loved—and learned much—from the first edition of American Sexual Histories, the updated second edition is even better.  Great primary sources—important and current historical scholarship—both challenging and absorbing.  Highly teachable!” – Gail Bederman, Notre Dame University

Editorial Reviews

Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven...These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks. Ombine is an East Village prima donna, a hoarder of gossip. He is filthy, but he is funny....The characters of "a" represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen's prefigurations of the technological millenium. -- The New York Review of Books

Lena Calhoun & The Emotions

"Elizabeth Reis's American Sexual Histories is a highly readable and utterly valuable resource for students and for the generally curious. This book traces the ever-changing fears, obsessions, and sometimes surprisingly tolerant attitudes Americans have held on the subject of sexual practice from the Puritans to 'liberation' in the late twentieth century." Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa

"American Sexual Histories is that all-too-rare achievement: a book of first-rate scholarship that encourages equally first-rate teaching. It is an extremely valuable book for students, teachers, and scholars." Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon

"This is a wonderful resource. Reis's clear introductions, thought-provoking scholarly articles, and exciting primary sources combine to create an indispensable collection for undergraduate classes." Sharon Block, University of California, Irvine

"Each chapter starts with an easy-to-read, very clear introduction written by Reis which should serve as a helpful guide for students ... American Sexual Histories makes on reconsider what is 'natural' or 'normal' in certain historical periods. And it sends the message that sex has a history like everything else. H-NET

From the Publisher