Lexington Books: 3858 books
Issues in Corrections
Research, Policy, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding;...
Reexamining Reentry
The Policies, People, and Programs of the United States Prisoner Reintegration Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Reexamining Reentry takes an in-depth look at how and why prisoner reentry programs are developed. Furthermore, this book explains how having access to these programs, or not, could potentially stymie the community reintegration of the formerly incarcerated. All too often we see the pervasive criminalization...
Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran
Transcending Islam for Social, Economic, and Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian...
Gendered Politics
Campaign Strategies of California Women Candidates, 1912–1970
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book explores women’s campaign strategies when they ran for state and national office in California from their first opportunity after state suffrage in 1911 to the advent of modern feminism in 1970. Although only 18 won, nearly 500 women ran on the primary ballots, changing the political landscape...
Europe and the Eastern Other
Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion and Culture before the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural or comparative approach in western political theory. The analysis of encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment illustrates that adopting an inter-cultural perspective...
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace
The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village,' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained...
Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage
Advancing the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational political and legal principles, extending ethical...
by Troy Jollimore, Mark Anderson, Edward F. Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses...
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...
Congolese Social Networks
Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses predominantly on the lives of three Congolese transmigrants (self-identified as such). This monograph situates them in a cosmopolitan South African space amongst dissimilar South...
by Patricia Alvarenga, Roger E. Bonilla-Calderón, Mónica Brenes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars from diverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa...
Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation
How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored...
Marginality and Crisis
Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa extends the scope and understanding of the effects of globalization and its forces on Africa. With each chapter written by specialists who recognize that the future of Africa is entwined with that of the rest of the world, this...
Under Wraps
A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these experiences are anything but common. In the United States, for the better part of the twentieth century, menstruation went hand-in-glove with menstrual hygiene. But how and...