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Artist and Influence on Black Thought and Culture

If you're already following the Black Art Project (and if you're not, consider this a recommendation!), you know that the Spring 2011 Artist and Influence interviews are starting this week! You'll be able to order Volume 29 at the end of this month. If you're in New York, check out the interviews for yourself at the Hatch-Billops Collection.

But if New York is a little too far for you, we've got you covered: our Black Thought and Culture database contains all the past Artist and Influence interviews. We're thrilled to be teaming up with the Black Art Project's George McKinley Martin to offer you temporary access to the Black Thought and Culture database through March.

Check out the Black Art Project's post for more details!

Social Theory has been completed!

We've just uploaded the final batch of new material into Social Theory, and the collection is now complete! Social Theory now contains over 150,000 pages of material from over 400 works by 145 authors.

Newly added titles include:

• Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea by Axel Honneth
• Volume 1- Volume 4 of The Mind and Society by Alfred Pareto
• Cultural Reality and The Method Sociology by Florian Znaniecki
• Studies In the Theory of Human Society by Franklin Henry Giddings

Social Theory is available to libraries and academic institutions worldwide. For more information, and to request a free trial and price quote, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

New release of Social Theory

Last month we updated Social Theory with new materials from a host of important social theorists. The collection is nearing completion and now contains over 145,000 pages. Newly added works from prominent theorists include:

• The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard
• The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno
• Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu
• Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann
• The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Stigma by Erving Goffman
• Postmodernity and its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman
• One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• Macro History: Essays In the Sociology of the Long Run by Randall Collins

Newly added works from women theorists include:

• Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism by Janet Wolff
• Property, Women and Politics: Subject Or Objects by Donna Dickenson
• A Rational Position on Suffrage: At the Request of the New York Times Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Everyday World as Problematic: a Feminist Sociology by Dorothy Smith
• Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics by Seyla Benhabib

Finally, the remaining 18 volumes of The Collected Works of Marx and Engels have been added along with several titles from Polity Press.

Social Theory is available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or outright purchase. For more information and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion

Fans of Women and Social Movements in the United States will be excited to learn of the new online forum for discussions of teaching and research in U.S. women's history. Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion is directed and managed by a group of historians, including Laura Westhoff of the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Carol Lasser of Oberlin College, and SUNY Binghamton professors and Women and Social Movements editors Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar.

The Online Discussion welcomes participation from students and historians, and seeks to enhance research and teaching through conversations about current practices, especially the use of online resources.

Join the discussion now at http://wasmblog.binghamton.edu/.

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Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss

By now you may have heard that French anthropologist and sociologist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away on October 30th. Often called "the father of modern anthropology," Lévi-Strauss was an important structuralism theorist. His theories are presented in Structural Anthropology, both volumes of which are available in Alexander Street's online collection Social Theory. The complete text of Elementary Structures of Kinship is also available in Social Theory.

In addition to his own works, Claude Lévi-Strauss is discussed in the works of others, including Communication and the Evolution of Society by Jürgen Habermas and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard.

Social Theory is available to libraries and academic institutions via annual subscription or a one-time purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, or to request a free trial, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

New content added to Women and Social Movements

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 has been updated with a new document project, document archive, and review essays devoted to women and social movements in Canada. The collection now includes 92 document projects/archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors.

Additionally, the Scholar's Edition has been updated with the final release of Commissions on the Status of Women between 1961 and 2005. The Scholar's Edition now includes over 90,000 pages of publications by local, state, and federal commissions.

Women and Social Movements in the United States is available to libraries and academic institutions through annual subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. To request a free trial or price quote, email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

(This graph appears in Women and Social Movements in the US: Scholar's Edition)

New Release of Social Theory

We are proud to announce that release 7 of Social Theory is live.  The collection now contains over 90,000 pages of works from such leading social theorists as Baudrillard, Comte, Durkheim, Foucault, Hegel, Nietzsche, de Tocqueville, Weber, and others.

This new release features 36 new titles from Habermas, Balibar, and Adorno to name a few.  In addition to the numerous authors and works available in Social Theory, the collection allows you to perform in depth searches and compare the various approaches to simple and complex social issues.

To celebrate this new release, we are offering a free download from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture. Chapter IV: Games and Sports offers an alternate view to America's obsession with football.

For more information on Social Theory or to request a trial please visit http://alexanderstreet.com/products/soth.htm.