Disease and Class
Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society
Who Succeeds in Science?
The Gender Dilemma
This highly readable analysis of the gender dimension in scientific careers––and its clear-headed advice––will be of great interest to everyone considering a career in science as well as to teachers, parents, and active scientists. Academics in sociology of science and gender studies as well as decision-makers in the areas of human resources and science policy will also welcome its discussions of general issues and policy recommendations.
Sandino's Daughters
Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle
Power and Everyday Life
The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This important new work is a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of São Paulo in the nineteenth century. Full of vivid detail, the book concentrates on the lives of working women--black, white, Indian, mulatta, free, freed, and slaves, and their struggles to survive.
Nursing Wounds
Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Women Patients, and the Negotiation of Meaning
School Talk
Gender and Adolescent Culture
The Myth of Scientific Literacy
Shamos advocates instead a practical science education curriculum that grants the impossibility of every American learning enough science to make independent judgments about major scientific issues. Rather than giving children the heavy diet of scientific terms and facts they now get, he would emphasize: an appreciation of science as an ongoing cultural enterprise; an awareness of technology's impact on one's personal health, safety, and surroundings; and the need to use experts wisely in resolving science/society issues.
"Tell Me a Riddle"
Tillie Olsen
American Childhood
Risks and Realities
The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Sold Separately
Children and Parents in Consumer Culture
Hives of Sickness
Public Health and Epidemics in New York City
Bodies of the Text
Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance
Aristotle's Physics
A Guided Study
Frauen
German Women Recall the Third Reich
What were the women of Germany doing during the Third Reich? What were they thinking? And what do they have to say a half century later?
In Frauen we hear their voices––most for the first time. Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of twenty-nine German women who were there: Working for the Resistance. Joining the Nazi Party. Outsmarting the Gestapo. Disliking a Jewish neighbor. Hiding a Jewish friend. Witnessing "Kristallnacht." Witnessing the firebombing of Dresden. Shooting at Allied planes. Welcoming Allied troops. Being a prisoner. And being a guard. The women recall their own and others' enthusiasm, doubt, fear, fury, cowardice, guilt, and anguish.
Alison Owings, in her pursuit of such memories, was invited into the homes of these women. Because she is neither Jewish nor German, and because she speaks fluent colloquial German, many of the women she interviewed felt comfortable enough with her to unlock the past. What they have to say will surprise Americans, just as they surprised the women themselves.
Not since Marcel Ophuls's controversial film The Sorrow and the Pity have we been on such intimate terms with "the enemy." In this case, the story is that of the women, those who did not make policy but were forced to participate in its effects and to witness its results. What they did and did not do is not just a reflection on them and their country––it also leads us to question what actions we might have taken in their place. The interviews do not allow for easy, smug answers.
Future Perfect
American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
Viewing Positions
Ways of Seeing Film
Liberating Memory
Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness
Babies In Bottles
Race
'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
Joyce Carol Oates
The Lindbergh Case
A Story of Two Lives
The Cinema of Isolation
A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
Plant Communities of New Jersey
A Study in Landscape Diversity
From the ridgetops of the north to the Pinelands of the south, New Jersey’s natural areas display an astonishing variety of plant life. This book--a completely revised edition of the classic Vegetation of New Jersey--enables readers to understand why the vegetation of New Jersey is what it is today and what it may become. Scientifically accurate yet written in a lively style, Plant Communities of New Jersey belongs on the bookshelf of every New Jerseyan who cares about the environment.
Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey
A Guide
Looking for God in the Suburbs
The Religion of the American Dream and its Critics, 1945-1965
In the 1950s, 99 percent of adult Americans said they believed in God. How, James Hudnut-Beumler asks, did this consensus about religion turn into the confrontational debates over religion in the 1960s? Although most Americans continued to live and worship as before, a significant number of young people followed the critics' call for a faith that led to social action, but they turned away from organized religion and toward the counterculture of the sixties. The critics of the 1950s deserve credit for asking questions about the value of religion as it was being practiced and the responsibilities of the affluent to the poor—and for putting these issues on the social and cultural agenda of the next generation.