Since the end of the Cold War understandings of the development of relationships within and between states have taken on new meanings, generally bundled under the term globalization. The word is used everywhere, but what does it mean? This book …
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Since the end of the Cold War understandings of the development of relationships within and between states have taken on new meanings, generally bundled under the term globalization. The word is used everywhere, but what does it mean? This book …
Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980-2001
What's new in French feminism at the beginning of the 21st century? How did France, within a decade, change from one of the most backward European societies in terms of women's representation in the political sphere, into one of the most …
Against Terrible Odds: Lessons in Resilience from Our Children
Challenging characterizations of children at risk, the authors show how 12 traumatized children developed into productive, caring, and responsible adults, refuting the myth that abuse automatically turns children into perpetual victims and are …
When My Parents Forgot How to Be Friends
back cover] Let's Talk About It! When My Parents Forgot How to Be Friends My parents used to be friends and I was happy. We did everything together. Then things started changing. My parents were always sad, and when they talked it was only to …
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff
Contemporary American society has the look of a split-level structure. Its political and social institutions distribute rights and privileges universally and proclaim the equality of all citizens. Yet economic institutions, with efficiency as …
The Follies of Globalisation Theory
Rosenberg argues that fashionable preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions among globalisation theorists: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments the more equivocal and evasive those arguments …
The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by …
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
"Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic" provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological …
Animals of all shapes and sizes gather beside Mother Earth to ask questions about the world around them. She lovingly teaches her children that all creatures—from big elephants and playful dolphins to flightless penguins and human beings—are …
This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one's fat, one's a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Set in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s, the bullying, lunch table treachery, and …
New and updated information includes how state officials are acting against the legalization of marijuana and how U.S. marijuana laws are based on inaccurate and outdated information.
Sins of Omission: The Jewish Community's Reaction to Domestic Violence
In a congregation of devoted worshippers gathered for Shabbat services at the local synagogue, it may be difficult to accept how many wives go home with their husbands to ongoing physical and emotional abuse. In "Sins of Omission," author Carol …
Another World Is Possible If...
Participants in the worldwide citizens' movement for social change and global justice like to proclaim that "Another World Is Possible." But is it? To this popular slogan, Susan George adds a cautionary "If," and proposes how we can indeed reach …
Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance
IWhile social movements from workers' rights campaigns to environmental justice coalitions publicize their struggles by narrating people's experiences, recent critiques of "experience" and "identity" challenge the authority of such texts. How can …
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, …
Social Work Constructivist Research
This is the first textbook to offer a clear, concise articulation of the dimensions of constructivism relevant to social work practice and research. Professor Rodwell recognizes the need to systematize a process of knowledge building and presents …
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. Getting into the United States has always been considered fairly easy. That has all changed. New screening processes and restrictions have made visiting the U.S. a more involved process. Whether you are an attorney looking …
Rapley argues provocatively that the seeds of political tensions that began in the third world--and are now being manifested around the globe--can be found in neoliberal prescriptions for economic reform.
This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is …
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
Exploring a wide range of sexual subjects from pornography to prostitution, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior.
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
In this second edition, writers such as Rebecca Walker, Nomy Lamm, and Inga Muscio are joined by Lisa Miya-Jervis, publisher of "Bitch"; Alison Crews, editor of "Girl-Mom"; and Daisy Hernandez of "Ms". Together, they cover a wide range of topics, …
Ever since Deleuze and Guattari provocatively declared that all becoming must go by way of a 'becoming-woman', their work has been the subject of intense feminist interrogation. This book highlights the key points of this ongoing inquiry, …
Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles — these define "the city" in the world's consciousness. James Donald takes us on a psychic journey to these places that have inspired artists, writers, architects, and filmmakers …
Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France
Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challengesmuch as it …
Racism: It is social, not "natural," it is general, not "personal"; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology — a cultural …
Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism
Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism offers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have made to film studies over the past two decades. Individual chapters present a range of perspectives, from …
GYN/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this 'Thunderbolt or Rage' that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 …
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Daisy Hernandez of "Ms. Magazine" and poet Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to their experience—to the strength and rigidity of community and religion, to borders and divisions, both internal and …
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion In this vivid family memoir told in the voices of three generations of women, poet Natasha Tarpley sets her own migrations in the context of a long line of African-Americans' stories.
Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France
Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challengesmuch as it …