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Mothering from the Field
The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research
Edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly
Rutgers University Press
Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from real women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order to revolutionize how we conceptualize research.
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers
Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility
Rutgers University Press
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a cross-section of Mexican immigrant youths. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing violence in their homelands, the book examines a group of Mexican teenage migrants who immigrated to New York City in the early 2000s.
At Translation's Edge
Rutgers University Press
Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others.
All Together Now
American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults
Rutgers University Press
Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families and shows how entire families bond at holidays in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction.
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.
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