A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

"An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, incl

The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid a

At a very young age, Olivia left her family and traditions in Mexico to live with her mother, Carmen, in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive and nearly all-whit

Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particu