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Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman
By Candace Falk
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
More than an account of Emma Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist, this biography offers an intimate look into her tumultuous affair with Chicago activist and red-light-district gynecologist Ben Reitman. As it charts her twin passions for Reitman and for social reform, it provides new insights into a brilliant, complex woman.
Shall Not Be Denied
Women Fight for the Vote
By Library of Library of Congress; Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
Rutgers University Press
Shall Not Be Denied tells the story of the long campaign for women’s suffrage – the largest reform movement in American history – lasting over seven decades. The struggle was not for the fainthearted. For years, determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, picketed and faced imprisonment. The book is a profusely illustrated companion to an exhibition organized by the Library of Congress.
Infected Kin
Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho
By Ellen Block and Will McGrath
Rutgers University Press
AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, a quarter of adults are infected. In Infected Kin, Block and McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care.
Slavery's Descendants
Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
Edited by Jill Strauss and Dionne Ford; Preface by Dionne Ford; Introduction by Jill Strauss; Afterword by Jill Strauss
Rutgers University Press
Slavery’s Descendants brings together twenty-five contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, to tell their personal stories of exhuming and exorcising America’s racist past. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery and reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time.
It Never Goes Away
Gender Transition at a Mature Age
Rutgers University Press
Now that gender reassignment has become much more commonplace, many people are ready to finally undergo the procedures they have always secretly wanted. Dr. Anne Koch describes the step by step procedures that she underwent, and shares the impact on her personal life, in order to show seniors the benefits and challenges of transitioning.
Beyond Repair?
Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm
By Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes
Rutgers University Press
Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced.
Beyond Repair?
Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm
By Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes
Rutgers University Press
Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced.
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin
Rutgers University Press
Forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words, revealing how each woman deals with the trauma of bereavement differently. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.
Unequal Higher Education
Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity
Rutgers University Press
Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the U.S. Taylor and Cantwell map the contours of this system, identifying which higher education institutions occupy which status positions at any given point in time, and explain the factors that support and extend this system of unequal higher education.
Undead Ends
Stories of Apocalypse
By S. Trimble
Rutgers University Press
Framing modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren’t so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man.
The Cat Men of Gotham
Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York
By Peggy Gavan
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the stories of the tender-hearted men who adopted stray cats from the cruel streets of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York. Its forty-two profiles introduce us to an array of remarkable men and extraordinary cats, including sports team mascots, artists’ muses, and presidential pets.
Phonographic Memories
Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Rutgers University Press
Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization.
Parcels
Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Rutgers University Press
Anastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Rutgers University Press
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art offers an innovative and systematic analysis of contemporary Caribbean art practices in the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. Focusing on a broad range of artistic projects, the book assesses the potential of visual creativity to outline a unique approach to Caribbean visual practices based on individual and collective agency.
You're Doing it Wrong!
Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise
Rutgers University Press
You’re Doing it Wrong! investigates the storied history of medical expertise directed at mothers in the media, from nineteenth-century publications to today’s parenting websites and private Facebook groups. Exploring potential health crises from infertility treatments to “better baby” contests, it provides a provocative look at two centuries of expertise on health decisions during the stages of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and infant care.
Toxic Exposures
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to mustard gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. Drawing from once-classified government records, military reports, scientists’ papers, and veterans’ testimony, Susan L. Smith assesses the poisonous legacies of these experiments, including scientific racism and environmental degradation. In addition, she reveals their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans’ rights movements.
Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Edited by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
Rutgers University Press
This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those propagated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
Weighty Problems
Embodied Inequality at a Children’s Weight Loss Camp
Rutgers University Press
By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
Weighty Problems
Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
Rutgers University Press
By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
The Instruction Myth
Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It
By John Tagg
Rutgers University Press
The Instruction Myth argues that higher education can only be saved if universities are willing and able to abandon one of their key assumptions: that education revolves around instruction. In its place, he presents a powerful new model of a university centered upon student learning, offering concrete plans for its implementation.
Soccer
By Jean-Philippe Toussaint; Translated by Shaun Whiteside
Rutgers University Press
Combining an intellectual’s keen mind and a sports fan’s heart, acclaimed novelist Jean-Philippe Touissant reflects upon what a lifetime love of soccer has taught him about life and the passage of time itself. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Soccer is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clichés of sports writing.
Forging Arizona
A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
Rutgers University Press
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S. Southwest, this book recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide are only as stable as the narratives that define them.
Destructive Desires
Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality
Rutgers University Press
Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how R&B culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities.
Impure Migration
Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina
By Mir Yarfitz
Rutgers University Press
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina. Yarfitz examines how thousands of Eastern European Jewish women and men migrated to Latin America and engaged in organized sex work to escape from the difficult conditions in their home countries.
When the Air Became Important
A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
Rutgers University Press
Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.
TV Family Values
Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms
Rutgers University Press
During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Alice Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.
Serial Selves
Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics
Rutgers University Press
Serial Selves considers how female, queer, disabled, and minority artists use autobiographical comics to make their experiences not only legible, but visible as well. Fusing methods from literary and visual studies, it explores how these artists on the margins challenge both the narrative conventions of autobiography and the norms of pictorial self-representation.
EC Comics
Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Rutgers University Press
EC Comics recounts how, in the 1950s, EC published many sensationally-titled comics with serious, socially progressive themes—such as “Hate!,” “The Guilty!,” and “Judgment Day!”—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, anticommunist hysteria, and other forms of prejudice in America.
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