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Excellent Cambria Press Book Review! Archives of Women’s Mental Health lauds Childbirth in a Technocratic Age!

Cambria Press congratulates Elizabeth Soliday on the excellent review by Archives of Women’s Mental Health on her book Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations and Experiences! It is a fitting coincidence that this review came in the day after Mother’s Day! The journal commends the book because it is “a very organized and readable book” and makes...

Cambria Press Forthcoming Titles!

Perspectives on Contemporary Dance History: Revisiting Impulse, 1950–1970 Egypt:  Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies Literature by the Working Class:  English Autobiographies, 1820–1848 The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze:  The British Raj and the Memsahib LIKE  Cambria Press on Facebook, Follow Cambria Press on Twitter, and  share this news from Cambria Press on Google+! Visit the Cambria Press website http://www.cambriapress.com

India Rapes Must Stop – CNN Interview with Padma Lakshmi

On the Cambria Press Facebook, we recently made a post about another kind of terrorism and this was the five-year-old child being raped and left to die in India. Why was this classified as terrorism? Because, according to Merriam Webster, terrorism is defined as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. Is this systematic? Yes, the...

ISA 2013 San Francisco – Another Great Conference for Cambria Press!

Cambria Press is pleased to report that the ISA 2013 annual conference in San Francisco was a great one! The Cambria Press booth was in a fantastic spot, right between Stanford University Press and Georgetown University Press. The new Cambria Press titles received much interest as well as the recently published Cambria Press titles with outstanding reviews. Just as it...

AAS 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Reviews for Cambria Press Titles!

In addition to the titles in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, the following titles in Asian Studies are being highlighted for the 2013 Asian Studies Association (AAS) annual conference in San Diego (click on links for more details): Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair (Winner of the the Sarasvati...

Brilliant Book Review for Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist!

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Brigitta Olubas on yet another fabulous review on her highly praised book Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist! The journal Contemporary Women’s Writing praises the book, stating that: “To read Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist must be to have something like the experience of the readers of feminist recovery projects in...

Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being held for Gao Xingjian: 1)    ...

MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!

Visit the Cambria Press booth (#316) to browse new titles as well as other Cambria Press titles that have received rave journal reviews, including: Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia Winner of Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History “A successful study … valuable...

The Memory of Slavery and Human Trafficking Today – Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present (General Editor: Ana Lucia Araujo)

This new series by Cambria Press will feature high-quality, innovative, and peer-reviewed monographs and edited books that examine the history of slavery and how its memories and legacies remain alive in various regions of the globe. With this aim, the series will include studies on contemporary slavery and human trafficking as well. The geographical scope of the series is broad. It...

Cambria Press Book Review: Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist — Scrupulously Scholarly!

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Brigitta Olubas on the glowing review review of her book, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, by The Australian. The book review praises the book for being “scrupulously scholarly” and adds that Olubas’s “primary observations are laid down on vast tranches of secondary reading, and she situates Hazzard’s achievement within contemporary developments in literary theory....

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