Rutgers University Press imprint: 413 books

Gender and Violence in Haiti

Women’s Path from Victims to Agents

by Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to...

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience

by Beth B. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018

The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors...

Drawing the Iron Curtain

Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation

by Maya Balakirsky Katz
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells...

The Door of Last Resort

Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner

by Frances Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer, Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of nurse practitioners through her experiences...

Blood on Their Hands

How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

by Donna Shaw, Eric Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big...

Voices of Mental Health

Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000

by Martin Halliwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy...

Hormones, Heredity, and Race

Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna

by Cheryl A. Logan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists—Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach—who...

Becoming Frum

How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

by Sarah Bunin Benor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers...
by Stephen M. Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. From the planning and construction of community centers, to volunteering at health fairs or...

Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers

Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor

by Barbara Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate...

Children and Drug Safety

Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America

by Cynthia A Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue...

Violence against Queer People

Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination

by Doug Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015

Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial...

Worried Sick

How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back

by Deborah Carr
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Comments like “I’m worried sick” convey the conventional wisdom that being “stressed out” will harm our health. Thousands of academic studies reveal that stressful life events (like a job loss), ongoing strains (like burdensome caregiving duties), and even daily hassles (like traffic jams...

A New Deal for the Humanities

Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G....
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