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by Leo Bersani
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields—including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from...
Hard-Core Romance
"Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid...
Living the Drama
Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. Living the Drama takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of...
Supersizing Urban America
How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona...
by Nancy Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. In The Sex Education...
Human Rights and Gender Violence
Translating International Law into Local Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence...
Uncivil Agreement
How Politics Became Our Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization...
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn’t lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans’ political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they...
News That Matters
Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book News That Matters, now hailed as a classic...
by Matthew Levendusky
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable channels offering a partisan take. With partisan...
Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays
Fantasy Play at Four
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and dangers as they play out the school year in Vivian Paley's classroom.
Their play is filled with warnings. They invent chaos in order to show that everything...
Boys and Girls
Superheroes in the Doll Corner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations,...
Street Therapists
Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in *Street Therapists,*examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships among US-born...
by Adam Laats, Harvey Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s...