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Abject Relations
Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
The Artificial Ear
Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness
The Burdens of Disease
Epidemics and Human Response in Western History
Between Good and Ghetto
African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
Schools Under Surveillance
Cultures of Control in Public Education
We Fight To Win
Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism
Feminisms Redux
An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
The Crucible
An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla
Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes
The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers
Embodying Culture
Pregnancy in Japan and Israel
Driven to Darkness
Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir
Comedy: American Style
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Transforming Environmentalism
Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice
Practice Under Pressure
Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Outside the Limelight
Basketball in the Ivy League
Dedicated to the People of Darfur
Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope
Do Bats Drink Blood?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bats
The Social Life of Scriptures
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism
Homecoming Queers
Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production
Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory alongside performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields.
Best Years
Going to the Movies, 1945-1946
Making Reform Work
The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
Poison in the Well
Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Power Politics
Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Power Politics
Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
The Prohibition Hangover
Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet
Making Room in the Clinic
Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
The Grand Gennaro
In Sputnik's Shadow
The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America
Salt Marshes
A Natural and Unnatural History
Cultivating Health
Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government.