UBC Press

Bold Ideas, Essential Reading since 1936.

Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge for a wide range of readers. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service. They enhance the work of their authors through exceptional publications that shape critical issues, spark debate, and enrich teaching. Core subjects include: film and media studies, sociology, anthropology, education, history, health, history of medicine, human rights, urban studies, criminal justice, Jewish studies, American studies, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, LGBTQ, Latino/a, Asian and African studies, as well as books about New York, New Jersey, and the region.

Rutgers also distributes books published by Bucknell University Press.

Showing 401-420 of 2,598 items.

The Work of Hospitals

The Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent; Afterword by Claire Wendland

Rutgers University Press

The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity. The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.

The Paris Commune

The Paris Commune

A Brief History

By Carolyn J. Eichner

Rutgers University Press

The Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and as the crucible allowing alternate possibilities. Upending hierarchies, the Commune became a touchstone for subsequent revolutionary and radical social movements.

Risky Cities

Risky Cities

The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism

By Albert S. Fu

Rutgers University Press

Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards.

OutWrite

OutWrite

The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture

Edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross

Rutgers University Press

This collection gives readers a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the 1990-1999 OutWrite conferences, including talks from such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, and Edmund White that cover everything from racial representation to sexual politics.

Literature and Revolution

Literature and Revolution

British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

By Owen Holland

Rutgers University Press

The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.

Immigrant Agency

Immigrant Agency

Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation

By Yang Sao Xiong

Rutgers University Press

Although political incorporation is often seen as something that states do, immigrants exert agency in incorporating themselves. Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency uncovers the dynamic interactions between immigrant agency and state racialization that generate racialized incorporation.

Double Exposure

Double Exposure

How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies

By Kathryn Millard

Rutgers University Press

Double Exposure examines the role of cinema in shaping social psychology’s landmark post-war experiments. The most influential experiments left a trail of visual evidence central to capturing the public imagination. Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.

Black Women Directors

Black Women Directors

By Christina N. Baker

Rutgers University Press

For far too long, the cultural and historical narratives about film have overlooked the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era to the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood.

Babylost

Babylost

Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

By Monica J. Casper

Rutgers University Press

The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Babylost tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 26 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code.

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights

Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust

Rutgers University Press

This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights

Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust

Rutgers University Press

This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.

Speaking Truths

Speaking Truths

Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism

By Valerie Chepp

Rutgers University Press

The twenty-first century has seen countless protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards, there are also young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind the scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry—and young people’s participation in it—contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation’s attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love.

See Me Naked

See Me Naked

Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era

By Tara T. Green

Rutgers University Press

Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie were Black women who, despite their public profiles, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure in their public and private lives. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of Black women who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government. Despite the pressures of respectability, they lived extraordinary lives.

Resonant Violence

Resonant Violence

Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies

By Kerry Whigham

Rutgers University Press

Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

Played Out

Played Out

The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire

By Brandon J. Manning

Rutgers University Press

Through contemporary examples, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men.

From Bureaucracy to Bullets

From Bureaucracy to Bullets

Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home

By Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso

Rutgers University Press

From Bureaucracy to Bullets uses eight compelling case studies—from five continents and spanning the 20th and 21st centuries—to explore the concept of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of home as a result of political violence. Moving beyond mere description, From Bureaucracy to Bullets identifies common factors that contribute to extreme domicide, thereby providing human rights actors with a framework to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions.

Badass Feminist Politics

Badass Feminist Politics

Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism

Edited by Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer

Rutgers University Press

Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.

Population Trends in New Jersey

Population Trends in New Jersey

By James W. Hughes and David Listokin

Rutgers University Press

Present-day New Jersey is the result of a long demographic and economic journey that has taken place over centuries, constantly influenced by national and global forces. Population Trends in New Jersey provides a detailed examination of this journey.

The Baseball Film

The Baseball Film

A Cultural and Transmedia History

Rutgers University Press

Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976) this book examines how baseball-themed films and TV series depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society. It considers works that nostalgically lionize white male heroes alongside films and television that dramatize the contributions of female and BIPOC players.

The American Girl Goes to War

The American Girl Goes to War

Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film

Rutgers University Press

The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women’s changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies.

Find what you’re looking for...

Stay Informed

Receive the latest UBC Press news, including events, catalogues, and announcements.

Sign me up!

Read past newsletters

Recent News

News | A holiday offer for our readers!

News | "Crerar’s Lieutenants" wins the 2017 C.P. Stacey Prize

News | UBC Press: Ten Historical Moments

News | In the Neighbourhood: Five UBC Press Books that Celebrate the Local

Publishers Represented

UBC Press is the Canadian agent for several international publishers. Visit our Publishers Represented page to learn more.