Taking a critical look at the gender presentation of DC and Marvel superheroes like Superman, Captain America, Batwoman, Luke Cage, and Storm, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.

Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States.

Documenting the American Student Abroad explores the documentary media cultures that shape our views of study abroad, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. Author Kelly Hankin shows how the institutional values of “global citizenship,” “intercultural communication,” and “cultural immersion” emerge in contradictory ways through their representation.
 

Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Climbing a Broken Ladder examines a wide range factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree.

Are Muslims in the Arab Middle East and North Africa fundamentally undemocratic? Pundits in the US often say yes, but Ahmed Khanani argues that this simplistic answer is incorrect. Instead, he shows, socially conservative, politically active Muslims value democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya as a frame that reflects and extends their religious values.

Are Muslims in the Arab Middle East and North Africa fundamentally undemocratic? Pundits in the US often say yes, but Ahmed Khanani argues that this simplistic answer is incorrect. Instead, he shows, socially conservative, politically active Muslims value democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya as a frame that reflects and extends their religious values.

Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda, and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia.

In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.