Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Borderlands Saints
Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces...
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature
Explorations of Place and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained...
Jewish on Their Own Terms
How Intermarried Couples are Changing American Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will have a tremendous impact on American Judaism as it is lived and practiced in the coming decades. To date, however, in both academic studies about Judaism and in the popular imagination,...
Abortion in the American Imagination
Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates...
by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Shaun Whiteside
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Growing up in Belgium, soccer was Jean-Philippe Touissant’s life, a passion not shared by his bookish family. Now an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, he reflects upon his lifelong love for the game with an intellectual’s keen mind and a sports fan’s heart. What, he ponders, has a...
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s...
The Three Axial Ages
Moral, Material, Mental
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
How should we think about the “shape” of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the “Axial Age” of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world’s major religious and intellectual developments first emerged,...
Black Movements
Performance and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with...
Destructive Desires
Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era...
by Steve Adubato
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In this practical guide, Emmy Award-winning public broadcasting anchor Steve Adubato teaches readers to be self-aware, empathetic, and more effective leaders at work and at home. His powerful case studies spotlighting dozens of leaders—from Pope Francis to New Jersey governor Chris Christie—are...
Family Trouble
Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and the Disruption of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis...
by Michele Ilana Friedner
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes the two as a source of value in postcolonial India. Michele Friedner argues that the experiences of deaf people offer an important portrayal of contemporary...
by Susan Brownmiller
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Gardening on rooftops, balconies, and terraces is a popular trend. After thirty-five years of experience, Susan Brownmiller writes with honesty and humor about her oasis twenty floors above a Manhattan street.
She reports the catastrophes: losing daytime access during building-wide renovations;...
Transplanting Care
Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation—the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them,...