Jody Madeira: 3 books
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between...
Killing McVeigh
The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On June 11, 2001, an unprecedented 242 witnesses watched him die by lethal injection.
In the aftermath of the bombings, American public commentary...
Taking Baby Steps
How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates...