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Desired States
Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile
Rutgers University Press
Situates the state, using Chile as a case study, in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties’ sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men’s gratification, leaders’ charisma, and sexual/domestic violence.
Becoming Philadelphia
How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
By Inga Saffron
Rutgers University Press
Over the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of Philadelphia’s transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, as she explores the tangled intersections of design, politics, and money at the heart of the city’s resurgence.
An Open Secret
The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
An Open Secret traces the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women’s personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.
The Social Life of Biometrics
Rutgers University Press
Biometrics is a technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity, yet as a mode of determining one truth, it creates many more that mediate how individuals exist. The Social Life of Biometrics examines human experiences of biometrics and considers their histories, effects, and futures.
Talking Therapy
Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
By Kylie Smith
Rutgers University Press
Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
Social Justice
Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from globalization and neoliberalism to the environment, this essential textbook - ideal for course use - encourages readers to question the limits of the law in its present state in order to develop fairer systems at the local, national, and global levels.
Projecting the Nation
History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
By Eran Kaplan
Rutgers University Press
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz, the rise of religion in Israel, the book explores the way cinema has represented and shaped our understanding of the Israeli history as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology.
Post-Communist Malaise
Cinematic Responses to European Integration
Rutgers University Press
Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Rutgers University Press
Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.
Mediating the Uprising
Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Rutgers University Press
Based on intensive fieldwork in Damascus and Beirut, Mediating the Uprising shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform Syrian television drama with various forms of cultural and political critique. The emergence of these suppressed narratives attests to the survival of the genre despite instability, war, and bloodshed.
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