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The Ruins of Ani
A Journey to Armenia's Medieval Capital and its Legacy
Rutgers University Press
Part historical study, part travel memoir, The Ruins of Ani takes readers on a thousand-year journey back to the former capital of the Armenian kingdom, once world-renowned for its magnificent buildings. This new translation by the author’s great-nephew, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian, eloquently captures the book’s vivid descriptions and lyrical prose.
International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia
Rutgers University Press
Andrea Whittaker traces the development of international surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. The book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it.
Romancing the Sperm
Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families
By Diane Tober
Rutgers University Press
Diane Tober explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which “modern families” are created and regulated. Through tangible and intimate stories, this book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human.
White Guys on Campus
Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.
Legitimating Life
Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology
Rutgers University Press
Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial.
It Will Yet Be Heard
A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival
Rutgers University Press
Written under extraordinary conditions, while its author was confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Leon Thorne’s firsthand account offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth century’s greatest tragedy.
Echoes of the Marseillaise
Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution
Rutgers University Press
E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study explores the perception of the French Revolution over the past two centuries. He considers how and why different generations and political factions have recounted it in radically different ways: as proletarian or as bourgeois, as ephemeral or as world-changing, as enlightened progress or as violent anarchy.
Inside Academia
Professors, Politics, and Policies
Rutgers University Press
In Inside Academia,esteemed professor and philosopherSteven M. Cahn diagnoses issues plaguing America’s universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. He uses real cases to illustrate how college faculty and administrators often do not serve the best interests of schools or students.
Open Your Hand
Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American
Rutgers University Press
Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana M. Blumberg faced a teaching crisis that shook her core beliefs and sent her on a life-changing journey. Open Your Hand shares her remarkable personal story, drawing upon Blumber’s Jewish faith and her American ideals to forge a teaching practice with the potential to transform society
Becoming Creole
Nature and Race in Belize
Rutgers University Press
Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples’ relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages.
Making History / Making Blintzes
How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America
By Mickey Flacks and Dick Flacks
Rutgers University Press
This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.
Psychiatric Encounters
Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
Rutgers University Press
Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico.
Faith and the Pursuit of Health
Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
Rutgers University Press
Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels.
Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Rutgers University Press
Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual odyssey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of Judaism—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today.
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture
Edited by Domino Renee Perez and Rachel González-Martin
Rutgers University Press
This book is an innovative work that takes a fresh approach to the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity, or conventional interpretations of stereotypes and bridge the intertextual gap between theories of community enactment and cultural representation.
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Edited by Simon Wendt
Rutgers University Press
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism.
Fistula Politics
Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger
Rutgers University Press
In Western humanitarian and media narratives, obstetric fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics.
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty
A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
33 Simple Strategies for Faculty is a guidebook filled with practical solutions on how to best help first-year and first-generation students who are struggling to adjust to college life. It gives faculty quick and efficient exercises they can use both inside and outside of the classroom to bolster their students’ academic success and wellbeing.
Lost
Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
Incorrigibles and Innocents
Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in turn-of-the-century comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had the right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.
The Patagonian Sublime
The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics
Rutgers University Press
The Patagonian Sublime provides a vivid and cutting-edge investigation of the green economy and New Left politics in Argentina. Based on extensive field research in Glaciers National Park and the mountain village of El Chaltén, Marcos Mendoza deftly examines the diverse social worlds of the many actors involved in the green economy.
Black New Jersey
1664 to the Present Day
Rutgers University Press
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey’s unique African American history and reveals how the state’s black citizens helped to shape the nation.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts
By Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin
Rutgers University Press
Brodsky and Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in this volume have made their mark as arts leaders by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts.
Pan–African American Literature
Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
By Stephanie Li
Rutgers University Press
Pan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived.
The Grind
Black Women and Survival in the Inner City
Rutgers University Press
Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of women living in the inner city. The Grind illustrates the lived experiences of poor African American women and the creative strategies they develop to manage these events and survive in a community commonly exposed to violence.
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D.E. Meyer
Rutgers University Press
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives.
Women of Valor
Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Rutgers University Press
Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who are at best naive to live an Orthodox lifestyle, and who are at worst, coerced into it. Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of Jewish women's feminist portrayals of Orthodox women in literature, film, and music.
Schooling, Democracy, and the Quest for Wisdom
Partnerships and the Moral Dimensions of Teaching
Rutgers University Press
A tremendous amount of energy has been expended by organizations to coordinate “partner schools” for teacher education. Bullough and Rosenberg examine the concept of partnering through various lenses and they address what they think are the major issues that need to be, but rarely are, discussed by thousands of educators.
The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
Rutgers University Press
Part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced.
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