... Taking up the vexed and fraught relation between the local and the national, Cai examines in this chapter the ways in which the socialist national had to cope with and absorb local inflections and local strategies of narrative social existence. Rejecting any simple binary conflict between...

... of a father in a son’s romance and marriage had a negative impact on the son’s potency. A number of cases show a wide range of women’s feelings, attitudes, and coping strategies when living with impotent men. Special attention is paid to bodily details of consequence to sexual intercorporeality that add up...

... Taking the case of behavior genetics, this essay traces efforts to cope with scientific disappointments and the conflicts among scientists spurred by postgenomics. Behavior genetics has long anticipated the advent of molecular genetics and postgenomics as deliverance from its endemic affliction...

... and East Asia. Buddhism becomes a transcultural formation that supplies essential knowledge for everyday coping and provides a map for coming to terms with loss across Asia. Significantly The Eye shows minority injury to be a matter of female agency as well as one that has to be approached...

...-class culture; it provides practical tips for coping with modern life; and it focuses on male insecurities about women and female complaints about men. These continuities reflect a complex history of working-class masculinities in Mexico that troubles conventional wisdom about the misogyny of Mexican...

... that the intervention of a father in a son’s romance and marriage had a negative impact on the son’s potency. A number of cases show a wide range of women’s feelings, attitudes, and coping strategies when living with impotent men. Special attention is paid to bodily details of consequence to sexual intercorporeality...