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Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Rutgers University Press
Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
By Amanda Izzo
Rutgers University Press
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists.
Diet and the Disease of Civilization
Rutgers University Press
Diet books have been some of the bestselling books of the 20th century and, upon close reading, reveal new philosophies depicting civilization itself as a disease and diet as the cure. Bitar shows how diet books serve as utopian manifestos for a better body, a healthier society, and a more perfect world.
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Edited by Ryan King-White
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Edited by Ryan King-White
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on current issues, including the NCAA, Title IX, recruitment of high school athletes, and the Penn State scandal, among others, Sport and the Neoliberal University shows the different ways institutions, individuals, and corporations are interacting with university athletics in ways that are profoundly shaped by neoliberal ideologies.
Exhibiting Atrocity
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
By Amy Sodaro
Rutgers University Press
Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights.
The Resilient Self
Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
By Chien-Juh Gu
Rutgers University Press
This book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.
Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness
Edited by Gretchen Brophy
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Neuropharmacology in Critical Illness is the first book that provides information on the treatment of neurocritical disease states in a high-yield format for the busy care provider. Edited and authored by leading experts in the field, this book provides practitioners with clinical pearls on neuropharmacology, dosing strategies, monitoring, adverse events, drug interactions, and evidence-based pharmacotherapy.
Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Rutgers University Press
Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.
Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Rutgers University Press
Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.
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