Temple University Press: 180 books
Youth Violence
Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Violence by and against youth continues to be one of the most challenging subjects facing criminologists. In this comprehensive and integrated analysis of the interrelationships of youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor and...
Men Can
The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Fatherhood is evolving in America. Stay at home dads are becoming more commonplace; men are becoming more visible in domestic, caregiving activities. In Men Can*,* writer, teacher, and father Donald Unger uses his personal experiences, stories of real-life families, as well as representations of fathers...
Revolutionary Passage
From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Revolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of perestroika and the rise of Vladimir Putin, arguing that the pressure Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms put on...
The End of Empires
African Americans and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, Economic...
Telling Young Lives
Portraits of Global Youth
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2008
Telling Young Lives presents more than a dozen fascinating, ethnograph-ically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. From a young woman engaged in agricultural labor in the High Himalayas to a youth activist based in Tanzania,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, African American Perspectives on Political Science presents original essays from leading African American political scientists. Collectively, they evaluate the discipline, its subfields, the quality of race-related...
by Elizabeth Minnich
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
This is a book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the prevailing systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary and therefore legitimate injustice, patriarchy, and violence. That is, these views...
Damaged Goods?
Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
How do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with...
The Public and Its Possibilities
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfieldargues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans...
Ethical Borders
NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In his topical new book, Ethical Borders, Bill Ong Hing asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and, what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, Hing examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization,...
Rain Without Thunder
The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Are "animal welfare" supporters indistinguishable from the animal exploiters they oppose? Do reformist measures reaffirm the underlying principles that make animal exploitation possible in the first place? In this provocative book, Gary L. Francione argues that the modern animal rights movement...
by Ralph W Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
On April 20, 1999, two Colorado teenagers went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School. That day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four other people, before they killed themselves. Although there have been other books written...
Barriers and Belonging
Personal Narratives of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives thatexplore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies...
Civic Talk
Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Does talking about civic issues encourage civic participation? In his innovative book, Civic Talk, Casey Klofstad shows that our discussions about politics and current events with our friends, colleagues, and relatives—"civic talk"—has the ability to turn thought into action—from...