Nyu Press: 1737 books
Medicating Modern America
Prescription Drugs in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an...
All Together Different
Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the early 1930’s, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were...
Discounted Life
The Price of Global Surrogacy in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia
Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems
India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar...
Fashioning Fat
Inside Plus-Size Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was a
sociologist turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size
10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for the fashion
industry, “plus-sized,” Czerniawski studied the standards of work and image
production in...
More Than Medicine
A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States immediately after World War II, especially when...
by Jennifer Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in...
The Politics of Disgust
The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about...
John Edward Bruce
Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
John Edward Bruce, a premier black journalist from the late 1800's until his death in 1924, was a vital force in the popularization of African American history. "Bruce Grit," as he was called, wrote for such publications as Marcus Garvey's nationalist newspaper, The Negro World, and McGirt's...
Judging Juveniles
Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology
2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology
By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal...
Bad Habits
Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
The vast majority of Americans have, at one point or another gotten drunk, smoked, dabbled with drugs, gambled, sworn or engaged in adultery. During the 1800s, respectable people struggled to control these behaviors, labeling them bad and the people who indulged in them unrespectable. In the twentieth...
Teaching What You're Not
Identity Politics in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian history? What are the political implications of the study of the colonizers by the colonized?...
From Anarchy to Power
The Net Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Companion website: http://www.nyupress.org/fap
Yesterday's battles over internet turf were fought on the net itself: today's battles are fought in government committees, in Congress, on the stock exchange, and in the marketplace. What was once an experimental ground for electronic commerce is now...
Feminism and Antiracism
International Struggles for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the...
Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Citizenship, Inequality, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been...