Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Modern Motherhood
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the United States, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal...
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors...
Drawing the Iron Curtain
Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells...
The Door of Last Resort
Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer, Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of nurse practitioners through her experiences...
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big...
Voices of Mental Health
Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy...
Hormones, Heredity, and Race
Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists—Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach—who...
Becoming Frum
How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers...
by Stephen M. Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. From the planning and construction of community centers, to volunteering at health fairs or...
Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers
Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate...
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue...
Violence against Queer People
Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial...
Worried Sick
How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Comments like “I’m worried sick” convey the conventional wisdom that being “stressed out” will harm our health. Thousands of academic studies reveal that stressful life events (like a job loss), ongoing strains (like burdensome caregiving duties), and even daily hassles (like traffic jams...