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The Divine Institution
White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family
Rutgers University Press
The Divine Institution provides an ethnographic account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics.
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance
Rutgers University Press
Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson’s final work conveys to the reader his sense of humor, warmth, and grace, while adding up to a serious, principled critique of much common scholarly and pedagogic practice.
Making the Right Choice
Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka
Rutgers University Press
Making the Right Choice is an intimate portrait of the politics of marriage and gender narrated through the life-histories of three generations of Sinhala-Buddhist families living in urban Sri Lanka. The book demonstrates that marriage is a privileged site to investigate questions about gendered selves, gendered agency, and modern subjectivities.
Imagining Persecution
Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith
By Jason Bruner
Rutgers University Press
Many American Christians believe they belong to the most persecuted religious community in the world. This book provides a historical account of this way of imagining the world, evaluating the evidence used to support it, and reflecting upon its religious and political implications.
Bodies Unbound
Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy
By Piper Sledge
Rutgers University Press
Bodies Unbound is a story about the relationship between bodies and gender. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations, Piper Sledge explores how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care when medical professionals use their position of authority to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not.
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
Neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009
Edited by H. Adlai Murdoch
Rutgers University Press
This essay collection examines the social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009, and the ways in which capital accumulation and centralization instantiated hierarchies of profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation in the wider non-sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico.
The Devil's Fruit
Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice
Rutgers University Press
The Devil’s Fruit uses anthropology’s tool kit to examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships in California’s agricultural industry. Rather than stopping at description and critique, Saxton explores how activist ethnographic methods and ethics align, conflict, and support ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice.
Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography
The Pornographic Object of Knowledge
Rutgers University Press
Pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. This book explores how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies.
Nursing the Nation
Building the Nurse Labor Force
Rutgers University Press
Nursing the Nation explores how nurses became employees of hospital and care agencies rather than independent, individual contractors. It also demonstrates how nurses missed opportunities to control their own destinies in practice, but gained the ability to establish themselves as the most critical part of health care today.
Hear #MeToo in India
News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
By Pallavi Guha
Rutgers University Press
This book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India.
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