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Where Human Rights Begin
Roy Lichtenstein
American Indian Encounters
Proving Grounds
Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving
Women and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
Race, Racism, and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
In Search of Swampland
A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide
How the Other Half Worships
A powerful, poignant, and visually arresting portrait, How the Other Half Worships stands as a stark witness to how churches are being rebuilt in the dilapidated streets of America’s cities and how religion is being reinvented by the nation’s poor.
Women's Studies for the Future
Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
Bringing together essays by newcomers as well as veterans to the field, this essential volume addresses timely questions including:
Without a unitary understanding of the subject, woman, what is the focus of women's studies?
How can women's studies fulfill the promise of interdisciplinarity?
What is the continuing place of activism in women's studies?
What are the best ways to think about, teach, and act upon the intersections of race, class, gender, disability, nation, and sexuality?
Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, Women's Studies for the Future ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field.
Victims as Offenders
The Paradox of Women's Violence in Relationships
In answering these questions, Miller draws on extensive data from a study of police behavior in the field, interviews with criminal justice professionals and social service providers, and participant observation of female offender programs. She offers a critical analysis of the theoretical assumptions framing the study of violence and provides insight into the often contradictory implications of the mandatory and pro-arrest policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. Miller argues that these enforcement strategies, designed to protect women, have often victimized women in different ways. Without sensationalizing, Miller unveils a reality that looks very different from what current statistics on domestic violence imply.
Suburban Sahibs
White Scholars/African American Texts
The Art of the American Musical
Conversations With the Creators
Knowing What We Know
African American Women's Experiences of Violence and Violation
Earning More and Getting Less
Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality
Cash For Your Trash
Scrap Recycling in America
Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, Cash for Your Trash demonstrates that over the years recycling has served purposes far beyond environmental protection. Its history and evolution reveals notions of Americanism, the immigrant experience, and the development of small business in this country.
Women Together/Women Apart
Portraits of Lesbian Paris
What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed.
In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications.
Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity.
A Church of Our Own
Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion
Germany's Nature
Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History
Germany's Nature is essential reading for students and professionals working in the fields of environmental studies, European history, and the history of science and technology.
The Diversity of Muslim Women's Lives in India
In order to broaden the lens through which Muslim women are typically seen, a group of researchers in India carried out a large and unprecedented study of one of the most disadvantaged sections of Indian society. The editors of The Diversity of Muslim Women’s Lives in India bring together this research in a comprehensive collection of informative and revealing case studies.
The Death of a Disease
A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis
In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a campaign for the global eradication of polio. Today, this goal is closer than ever. Fewer than 1,300 people were paralyzed from the disease in 2004, down from approximately 350,000 in 1988. In The Death of a Disease, science writers Bernard Seytre and Mary Shaffer tell the dramatic story of this crippling virus that has evoked terror among parents and struck down healthy children for centuries.