Bøger i Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series serien

An examination of race, class, and gender issues surrounding kinship and family formation in America, seen through the lens of adoption.

Offers a vivid and nuanced picture of working for social justice while trying to remain true to people's traditions

Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women's writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide

Viewing popular women's daytime TV programs of the 1950s from a feminist perspective.

A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age.

Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic

This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.

This anthology gathers four plays for youth and families, including Still Life with Iris, by Steven Dietz, one of America's most widely produced and published contemporary playwrights.

Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow," which systemati

A sweeping examination of Afghanistan's most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country "the worst place on earth t

The long-lost romantic memoir of Alma Reed, an American journalist and companion of Mexican martyr Felipe Carrillo Puerto.

This ethnographic study of a low-income neighborhood in the northeastern state of Ceara analyzes the complicated and compromised realities of Brazil's universal health care system, pointing the way toward more successful planning of future reforms.

Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.

In this engagingly written memoir, creator-producer Aida Barrera describes how the mythical world of Carrascolendas grew out of her real-life experiences as a Mexican American child growing up in the Valley of South Texas.

An innovative portrait of a small Colorado town based on a decade's worth of food-centered life histories from nineteen of its female residents.

A powerful account of how racial identity issues affect Chicana/o students' school success.

Drawing on the trial transcripts of Cajamarca, a northern Peruvian province, from more than a century ago, this book shares eye-opening details about life among this community, in which reputation could determine a woman's chances of survival.

Mixing It Up brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism first-hand.

The story of a new community charter school, told by one of its founders.

How Mayan women endure, escape, and avoid abuse.

This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive empirical study of the school experiences of Mexican Americans and those who help them succeed.

A sweeping examination of Afghanistan's most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country "the worst place on earth t

A beautifully written, moving memoir about how the diagnosis of a terminal illness led to a perilous journey of self-awareness that not only restored the author's health but also taught her the healing power of love and of our connection to the natural wo

This young adult biography introduces middle school readers to a remarkable woman who founded the Women's Army Corps, served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and ran a media empire that included the Houston Post newspaper and radio and TV s

This compelling memoir by the author of Canar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador vividly describes an American couple's experience of making a second home in a rural Andean community in which they are the only outsiders.

While adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.

This first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America considers how women's experiences in the informal employment sector can illuminate our understandings of work and gender in Ecuador and other developing countries.

Combining scholarly research with vivid, first-person accounts, this lively history for the first time tells the story of women's experiences in twentieth-century Texas, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of color.