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Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Ninteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
Dreaming Equality
Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
Aftershocks of the New
Feminism and Film History
The Black Press
New Literary and Historical Essays
Greetings from New Jersey
A Postcard Tour of the Garden State
American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences
Styles of Affiliation
During the nineteenth century, the content and institutional organization of the sciences evolved dramatically, altering the public's understanding of knowledge. As science grew in importance, many women of letters tried to incorporate it into a female worldview. Nina Baym explores the responses to science displayed in a range of writings by American women. Conceding that they could not become scientists, women insisted, however, that they were capable of understanding science and participating in its discourse. They used their access to publishing to advocate the study and transmission of scientific information to the general public.
Women, Gender, and Human Rights
A Global Perspective
The Evolution Wars
A Guide to the Debates
Some of Us
Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
Old Paint
A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980
Tales of South Jersey
Profiles and Personalities
Feminist Locations
Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these conceptions by breaking them apart and reconfiguring them into intersecting, relational fields of difference. The contributors to this collection look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity.
Black Feminist Anthropology
Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
Ben Shahn and "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"
Wrongly Convicted
Perspectives on Failed Justice
The American criminal justice system contains numerous safeguards to prevent the conviction of innocent persons. The Bill of Rights provides nineteen separate rights for the alleged criminal offender. Despite these safeguards, wrongful convictions persist, and the issue has reverberated in the national debate over capital punishment. The essays in this volume are written from a cross-disciplinary perspective by some of the most eminent lawyers, criminologists, and social scientists in the field today. The most important single characteristic among wrongful conviction cases, the contributors argue, is chronic denial of the existence of a problem by politicians and prosecutors and their failure to act decisively when evidence of a possible wrongful conviction comes to light.
Women and Dieting Culture
Inside a Commercial Weight Loss Group
Who Gets the Good Jobs?
Combating Race and Gender Disparities
Unsettling 'Sensation'
Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy
Uncontained
Urban Fiction in Postwar America
The Handholder's Handbook
A Guide for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's or Other Dementias
Run For The Wall
Remembering Vietnam on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage
Remaking the Godly Marriage
Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families
In Remaking the Godly Marriage, John Bartkowski studies evangelical Protestants and their views on marriage and gender relations and how they are lived within individual families. The author compares elite evangelical prescriptions for godly family living with the day-to-day practices in conservative Protestant households. He asks: How serious are the debates over gender and the family that are manifested within contemporary evangelicalism? What are the values that underlie this debate? Have these internecine disputes been altered by the emergence of new evangelical movements such as biblical feminism and the Promise Keepers? And given the fact that leading evangelicals advance competing visions of godly family life, how do conservative religious spouses make sense of their own family relationships and gender identities?
Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures
Women Artists in Post-Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia The First Decade
How do women artists in Russia, Estonia, and Latvia view themselves in the post-Soviet era? What is their relationship to feminism and how has that relationship changed following the fall of the Soviet regime?
Having conducted over sixty interviews between 1995 and 1998, Renee Baigell and Matthew Baigell explore in this volume these women’s seemingly second-class status, the difficulties of pursuing an art career in a male-dominated society, and the attitudes—often hostile—of their male counterparts toward feminist concerns.
Lesbian Rabbis
The First Generation
Everyday People
Profiles from the Garden State
In this time of ever-shorter news stories telling us everything that’s wrong with the world, it’s a nice change of pace to read about someone like Felix Addeo, who takes time out of his busy schedule to teach middle school kids what it’s like to be an accountant. Or biomedical engineer Lois Ross, who twice a year leads a group of volunteers to clean up a local pond. These are just two of the ordinary, yet extraordinary, people profiled in this collection of feature articles by New Jersey reporter Al Sullivan. Through richly detailed stories—a kind of writing that has all but disappeared from our local newspapers—about small-town people in extraordinary situations, Sullivan depicts the characters that enliven life in the Garden State. While his stories always have a strongly local feel, each contains an element of the universal that draws in readers whose interest lies not in a specific location, but in the diverse experiences and stories of people who live in and shape a community.
Communities and The Environment
Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation
For years environmentalists thought natural resources could be best protected by national legislation. But the poor outcomes of this top-down policy have led conservation professionals today to regard local communities as the agents of conservation efforts. According to a recent survey, more than fifty countries report that they pursue partnerships with local communities in an effort to protect their forests. Despite the recent popularity of a community-based approach, the concept of community rarely receives the attention it should get from those concerned with resource management. This balanced volume redresses the situation, demonstrating both the promise and the potential dangers of community action.
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world.