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Medical Entanglements

Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare

Rutgers University Press

Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medicine. Drawing on case studies, the book argues that most medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce inequality and alleviate individual suffering. Thus, the book argues that feminists should allow individuals choice in regards to medical intervention, while working to dismantle systems of oppression.
 

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Indigenous Communalism

Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective

Rutgers University Press

Indigenous Communalism is a study of community building in Native communities, and considers what models might be drawn from the strategies of Indigenous groups for post-colonial communalism and native self-determination in contemporary global society. Drawing on her ethnographic work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri, Carolyn Smith-Morris shows how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive indigenous bonds.

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American Community

Radical Experiments in Intentional Living

Rutgers University Press

American Community takes us inside forty of our nation’s most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience.

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Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

Rutgers University Press

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.

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Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

Rutgers University Press

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.

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Crisis Leadership in Higher Education

Theory and Practice

Rutgers University Press

There was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare and episodic. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Drawing upon original research, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education presents a theory-informed framework for academic and administrative leaders who must navigate the institutional and environmental crises that are most germane to institutions of higher education.

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Becoming Rwandan

Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen

Rutgers University Press

Drawing on extensive survey data, interviews, and observations carried out with teachers and students in fifteen schools across Rwanda, Becoming Rwandan is a thought-provoking study of the power and the limitations of education as a peacebuilding and state-building tool.

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Women Artists on the Leading Edge

Visual Arts at Douglass College

Rutgers University Press

This book explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that “anything can be art.”

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Long Walk Home

Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

Rutgers University Press

In this unique collection, critics, musicians, scholars, and fans describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by Bruce Springsteen’s music. A diverse array of contributors reflect on their personal connections to Springsteen’s songs, illustrating the meaning of his music and its resonance for listeners over the course of nearly five decades.
 

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Time to Get Real!

Turning Uncertainty into an Action Plan for Personal and Professional Success

Rutgers University Press

This book is a unique guide to life and career planning providing you with a step-by-step approach to create your intentional life. It is market and time-tested, filled with instructive case studies, inspiration, and interactive exercises, enabling you to unlock those things within that lead to personal satisfaction and success.

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