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Aphrodite's Daughters
Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Rutgers University Press
Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery, African American poetic iconoclasts who viewed the female body as a source of strength and transcendence as they pioneered forthright modes of erotic self-expression during the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing from their published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, Maureen Honey immerses us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived.
Editing and Special/Visual Effects
Edited by Charlie Keil and Kristen Whissel
Rutgers University Press
Editing and Special/Visual Effects brings together a diverse range of film scholars who trace how the arts of editing and effects have evolved in tandem. Starting with the “trick films” of the early silent era, they demonstrate the key role these two crafts have played in cinematic history. Along the way, readers learn about a variety of filmmaking techniques, from classic Hollywood’s rear projection and matte shots to the fast cuts and wall-to-wall CGI of the contemporary blockbuster.
Styling Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
Rutgers University Press
Styling Masculinity investigates the economic and social relations at the heart of the growing multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Conducting detailed observations at two upscale men’s salons, Kristen Barber explores both how male customers are encouraged to invest in their appearance and how female employees do much of the work—not only the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos.
Cerebral Herniation Syndromes and Intracranial Hypertension
Edited by Matthew Koenig
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Bringing together internationally-renowned neurocritical care experts from a variety of neurology, critical care, surgery, and neurosurgery disciplines, Cerebral Herniation Syndromes and Intracranial Hypertension takes a comprehensive look at the complex relationship between intracranial pressure and cerebral herniation syndromes. Drawing from expertise gained working in high-volume medical centers, the book’s contributors demonstrate the best practices for offering individualized care to brain injury patients, based on their specific conditions and manifest symptoms.
Selling Science
Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Rutgers University Press
In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio, using 55,000 healthy children. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. He shows that at a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception.
Monstrous Progeny
A History of the Frankenstein Narratives
Rutgers University Press
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is itself a monster, a mythos that will not die, a corpus that keeps getting harvested for parts to animate new artistic creations. Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the novel’s literary and intellectual roots, analyzing the evolution of the Frankenstein figures and themes, and examining the tale’s continued relevance to modern debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, and the limits of scientific progress.
Militant Visions
Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Uncovering a whole generation of militant Black characters onscreen long before Shaft or Sweetback, Militant Visions examines the depiction of African American soldiers in films from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the process, it reveals how the image of the proud and powerful African American soldier was crafted by an unexpected alliance of government propagandists, activists, and Black filmmakers.
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Edited by Zvi Gitelman
Rutgers University Press
The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of nearly two million Jews who emigrated from the former Soviet Union and examines the marks they have made on the social and political terrain of the United States, Israel, and Germany. An international array of experts on the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora from a variety of disciplines explore the diverse ways these immigrants have adapted to their new environments, and identify the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them.
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism
By Paul Young
Rutgers University Press
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic to an industry-wide success story, then left to establish a renowned and controversial career. A childhood fan of the comic, media scholar Paul Young presents a rigorous study of the artist’s influences and innovations, an examination of how Miller’s vision impacted the comics industry, and a reflection on how Daredevil taught him about the creative possibilities of comics while shaking his faith in superheroes.
Holocaust
An American Understanding
Rutgers University Press
In Holocaust: An American Understanding, Deborah E. Lipstadt reveals how since the end of the war a broad array of Americans have tried to make sense of an inexplicable disaster, and how they came to use the Holocaust as a lens to interpret their own history. Drawing upon extensive research on politics, popular culture, student protests, religious debates and Zionist ideologies, Lipstadt weaves a powerful narrative that ranges from the civil rights movement and Vietnam, to the Rwandan genocide and the bombing of Kosovo.
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Rutgers University Press
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Rutgers University Press
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.
Drawing the Iron Curtain
Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation
Rutgers University Press
Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive. Maya Balakirsky Katz reveals how the state-run animation studio Soyuzmultfilm served as an unlikely haven for political dissidents and brought together Jewish creative personnel from across the land. These artists used the studio to depict distinctive elements of their heritage and ethnic identity, while articulating a cosmopolitan sensibility and a multicultural vision for the Soviet Union.
Living Class in Urban India
By Sara Dickey
Rutgers University Press
Sara Dickey considers how urban Indians’ notions of class and caste are rapidly transforming in the wake of globalization. Introducing the reader to four residents in the city of Madurai from varied backgrounds, she documents their palpable day-to-day experiences of class. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities.
From the Edge
Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
Rutgers University Press
From the Edge reveals the tangled textual histories behind some of the most cherished works in the Chicana/o literary canon, tracing the contentious negotiations between authors, editors, and publishers that determined how these books appeared in print. In this groundbreaking examination of the politics of print culture, Allison Fagan demonstrates how the texts surrounding the authors’ words—from editorial prefaces to Spanish-language glossaries, from reviewers’ blurbs to readers’ marginalia—have crucially shaped the reception of Chicana/o literature.
Transplanting Care
Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Transplanting Care examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and their caregivers, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Laura L. Heinemann follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this difficult “transplant journey” while coping with a paucity of resources for caregiving.
Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control
Rutgers University Press
Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. Placing their stories within the context of the current culture of mass incarceration and zero-tolerance, Rickard provides a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between public policy and lived experience.
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein; Epilogue by Tom Boellstorff; Introduction by Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein; Preface by Rayna Rapp
Rutgers University Press
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century provides an historical and theoretical overview of feminist anthropology’s origins, the transformation it has undergone, and the vital contributions it continues to make to cutting-edge scholarship. Chronicling the impact feminist anthropologists have made on a wide range of academic fields, from science and technology studies to queer theory, it also reveals the important role they have played in global campaigns against human rights abuses, domestic violence, and environmental degradation.
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein; Epilogue by Tom Boellstorff; Introduction by Ellen Lewin and Leni M. Silverstein; Preface by Rayna Rapp
Rutgers University Press
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century provides an historical and theoretical overview of feminist anthropology’s origins, the transformation it has undergone, and the vital contributions it continues to make to cutting-edge scholarship. Chronicling the impact feminist anthropologists have made on a wide range of academic fields, from science and technology studies to queer theory, it also reveals the important role they have played in global campaigns against human rights abuses, domestic violence, and environmental degradation.
After Capitalism
Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship
Edited by Kennan Ferguson and Patrice Petro
Rutgers University Press
After Capitalism brings together leading scholars from across the academy to offer competing perspectives on capitalism’s past incarnations, present conditions, and possible futures. Analyzing global trends from real estate bubbles to debt relief protests, this book also closely examines economic conditions in locales as varied as Cuba, India, and Latvia. Collectively, these essays raise provocative questions about how we should imagine capitalism in the twenty-first century.
Arterial and Venous Access in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Arterial and Venous Access in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Edited by Mazen Abu-Fadel
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Written by an expert team of clinical practitioners, Arterial and Venous Access in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab presents thorough recommendations and instructions for accessing the arterial and venous beds. Covering everything from anesthesia to closures, the book offers a complete overview of each technique from start to finish, assessing its risks and advantages, while providing an up-to-date guide to the best medical technologies and materials. This work is an invaluable resource for a wide range of clinical personnel, from medical doctors to critical care nurses to vascular technicians.
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Edited by Robert A. Phillips
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, one that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together key thought leaders and trail-blazing practitioners, who provide a wide-ranging exploration of the strategies, innovations, and paradigm shifts that are driving this healthcare transformation. Capturing the vision of these leading innovators, this volume provides a roadmap to the future of American medicine.
Southwest Asia
The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
Rutgers University Press
Southwest Asia investigates why key Chicana/o writers, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Raising concerns about how these texts invariably marginalize their Asian characters and suggesting that darker legacies of imperialism and exclusion might lurk beneath their utopian visions of a Chicana/o nation, Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue takes our conception of Chicana/o literature as a transnational movement in a new direction.
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
Rutgers University Press
Looking Back on the Vietnam War embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why. Each essay examines a different facet of the Vietnam War, offering fresh insights on the war’s long-term psychological, social, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. By putting these diverse pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies.
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
Rutgers University Press
Looking Back on the Vietnam War embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why. Each essay examines a different facet of the Vietnam War, offering fresh insights on the war’s long-term psychological, social, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. By putting these diverse pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Decline and Revitalization of Urban America
Rutgers University Press
Using oral histories, archival materials, census data, and surveys, New Brunswick, New Jersey illuminates the factors that led to New Brunswick’s dramatic revitalization, describing the major redevelopment projects that exemplify the city’s success in capitalizing on funding opportunities. Shining a light on both the successes and failures, the authors underscore the lessons to be learned for national urban policy, highlighting the value of partnerships, unwavering commitment, and local leadership.
Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health
Rutgers University Press
Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Edited by Karen M. O'Neill and Daniel J. Van Abs
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together leading researchers—including biologists, urban planners, utilities experts, and climatologists, among others—Taking Chances illuminates the reactions to the dangers revealed by Hurricane Sandy. Focusing on New Jersey, New York, and other hard-hit areas, the contributors explore whether Sandy has indeed transformed our perceptions of coastal hazards, if we have made radically new plans in response to Sandy, and what we think should be done over the long run.
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Edited by Karen M. O'Neill and Daniel J. Van Abs
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together leading researchers—including biologists, urban planners, utilities experts, and climatologists, among others—Taking Chances illuminates the reactions to the dangers revealed by Hurricane Sandy. Focusing on New Jersey, New York, and other hard-hit areas, the contributors explore whether Sandy has indeed transformed our perceptions of coastal hazards, if we have made radically new plans in response to Sandy, and what we think should be done over the long run.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements
Edited by Mary K. Trigg and Alison R. Bernstein
Rutgers University Press
The case studies in Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Social Movements introduce readers to twelve women from across the globe who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements, from gender equality to environmental justice. Examining how these women made sacrifices, asked critical questions, challenged injustice, and exhibited the will to act in the face of harsh criticism, these case studies also provide a unique window into the ways that women leaders make decisions at moments of struggle and historical change.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements
Edited by Mary K. Trigg and Alison R. Bernstein
Rutgers University Press
The case studies in Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Social Movements introduce readers to twelve women from across the globe who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements, from gender equality to environmental justice. Examining how these women made sacrifices, asked critical questions, challenged injustice, and exhibited the will to act in the face of harsh criticism, these case studies also provide a unique window into the ways that women leaders make decisions at moments of struggle and historical change.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business
Edited by Lisa Hetfield and Dana M. Britton
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Business, features a diverse array of women corporate executives and entrepreneurs, both past and present, including Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, and Madam C.J. Walker. Each of the twelve case studies in this volume includes a compelling and instructive story of how a prominent woman in business handled a critical juncture or crisis in her career, presenting leadership lessons that will benefit readers regardless of gender.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business
Edited by Lisa Hetfield and Dana M. Britton
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Business, features a diverse array of women corporate executives and entrepreneurs, both past and present, including Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, and Madam C.J. Walker. Each of the twelve case studies in this volume includes a compelling and instructive story of how a prominent woman in business handled a critical juncture or crisis in her career, presenting leadership lessons that will benefit readers regardless of gender.
The Brooklyn Experience
The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge
By Ellen Freudenheim; Foreword by Steve Hindy
Rutgers University Press
The Brooklyn Experience, Ellen Freudenheim’s fourth comprehensive Brooklyn book, is the insider’s guide to this fun destination. Offering photos, itineraries, and forty-one neighborhood profiles from Coney Island to Williamsburg, the book showcases Brooklyn’s remarkable culinary, cultural, and artistic renaissance. Interviews with sixty luminaries capture Brooklyn today: meteoric gentrification, celebrities, mafia trials, artisanal cocktails, and fabulous shopping. A celebration of the vibrant new and gritty old Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Experience lists 800 cultural venues, mom-and-pops, and eateries.
Privacy and the Past
Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Rutgers University Press
In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C. Lawrence explores the impact of research ethics and increasing privacy concerns on the study of history, offering insight into what historians should do when they research, write about, and name real people in their work. Engagingly written and powerfully argued, this book is an important first step in preventing privacy regulations from affecting the historical record and the ways that historians help us understand ourselves.
Feeding the Future
School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
Rutgers University Press
Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs supported by state and national governments. In Feeding the Future, Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world, from the postwar period to the present.
Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States
Reimagining Survivors
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children.
Moment of Action
Riddles of Cinematic Performance
Rutgers University Press
Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The Red Shoes, Godzilla, and The Bourne Identity, Murray Pomerance takes us on an innovative exploration of the nexus at which the actor’s keen skills spark and kindle the audience’s receptive energies.
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Rutgers University Press
Transforming the Academy brings together faculty members from many different backgrounds—male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, white, black, multiracial, and other—to examine the state of diversity within the American university. Whether describing challenging power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity.
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Rutgers University Press
Transforming the Academy brings together faculty members from many different backgrounds—male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, white, black, multiracial, and other—to examine the state of diversity within the American university. Whether describing challenging power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity.
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