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Learning to Be Latino
How Colleges Shape Identity Politics
Rutgers University Press
In Learning to be Latino, Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life, outlining students’ interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students’ lives on these campuses.
Crash Course
From the Good War to the Forever War
Rutgers University Press
In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century’s darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.
Manhood Impossible
Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work
By Scott Melzer
Rutgers University Press
In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.
Kicking Center
Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
Rutgers University Press
In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.
Kicking Center
Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
Rutgers University Press
In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.
Others' Milk
The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding
Rutgers University Press
Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milk illustrate just how challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle.
Disenchanted Lives
Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints
Rutgers University Press
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) once heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Many members’ study of church history and scriptures has pushed them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among Mormons in Utah.
You've Always Been There for Me
Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents
Rutgers University Press
Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call “grandfamilies”—households in which children are being raised by their grandparents. Drawing on data gathered from New York grandfamilies, Rachel Dunifon analyzes their unique strengths and distinct needs.
Global Cinema Networks
Edited by Elena Gorfinkel and Tami Williams
Rutgers University Press
Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence.
Global Cinema Networks
Edited by Elena Gorfinkel and Tami Williams
Rutgers University Press
Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence.
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