Women's Piety in Egypt and Mexico Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. By Sabra Mahmood. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent. By Rebecca Lester. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Oil Transformations In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory and Social Life in an Omani Town. By Mandana Limbert. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Luis Alvarez. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 318 pp.; 20 black-and-white illustrations. $34.95.
