Double-Take
A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
The Right to Die with Dignity
An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law
There are few issues more divisive than what has become known as “the right to die.” One camp upholds “death with dignity,” regarding the terminally ill as autonomous beings capable of forming their own judgment on the timing and process of dying. The other camp advocates “sanctity of life,” regarding life as intrinsically valuable, and that should be sustained as long as possible. Is there a right answer? Raphael Cohen-Almagor takes a balanced approach in analyzing this emotionally charged debate, viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives.
Remaking Chinese America
Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965
Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Ninteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
Dreaming Equality
Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
Aftershocks of the New
Feminism and Film History
The Black Press
New Literary and Historical Essays
Greetings from New Jersey
A Postcard Tour of the Garden State
American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences
Styles of Affiliation
During the nineteenth century, the content and institutional organization of the sciences evolved dramatically, altering the public's understanding of knowledge. As science grew in importance, many women of letters tried to incorporate it into a female worldview. Nina Baym explores the responses to science displayed in a range of writings by American women. Conceding that they could not become scientists, women insisted, however, that they were capable of understanding science and participating in its discourse. They used their access to publishing to advocate the study and transmission of scientific information to the general public.
Women, Gender, and Human Rights
A Global Perspective
The Evolution Wars
A Guide to the Debates
Some of Us
Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
Old Paint
A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980
Tales of South Jersey
Profiles and Personalities
Feminist Locations
Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these conceptions by breaking them apart and reconfiguring them into intersecting, relational fields of difference. The contributors to this collection look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity.
Black Feminist Anthropology
Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
Ben Shahn and "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"
Wrongly Convicted
Perspectives on Failed Justice
The American criminal justice system contains numerous safeguards to prevent the conviction of innocent persons. The Bill of Rights provides nineteen separate rights for the alleged criminal offender. Despite these safeguards, wrongful convictions persist, and the issue has reverberated in the national debate over capital punishment. The essays in this volume are written from a cross-disciplinary perspective by some of the most eminent lawyers, criminologists, and social scientists in the field today. The most important single characteristic among wrongful conviction cases, the contributors argue, is chronic denial of the existence of a problem by politicians and prosecutors and their failure to act decisively when evidence of a possible wrongful conviction comes to light.