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This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country and Galicia focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the centre of current debates in Spain and elsewhere: the emergence of minority literatures; multilingualism and identity; new re

In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital; disability; dying and "the right to die"; he

Exploring the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide, the author interviews obstetricians and gynecologists around the U.S. to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stig

Exploring the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide, the author interviews obstetricians and gynecologists around the U.S. to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stig

Follows the trajectory of the polio eradication effort in Pakistan, one of the last four countries in the world with endemic polio. Journeying from vaccination campaigns in rural Pakistan to the center of global health decision making at the World Health

Draws out strategic and leadership lessons that engaged citizens and advocates for popular causes stonewalled by powerful lobbies can put to immediate and practical use. Includes a unique strategic template that includes momentum-building stages over a mu

Explores the tactics and legacy of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency of the state that existed from 1956 to 1977 and was devoted exclusively to defending and supporting the institution of segregation.

For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. This title situates marital HIV risk within an exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea.

Modernismo (1880S-1920S) is considered one of the most groundbreaking literary movements in Hispanic history. This title shows how modernismo originated in Latin America and traveled to Spain, where it provoked a complete renovation of Spanish letters and contributed to a national identity crisis.

Includes essays that tease out the power of print and visual cultures, examine the impact of carnival, delve into religion and war, and study the complex histories of gender identities and disease.

Traces the trajectory of the liberal and conservative traditions. This title argues that modern liberalism is an unprincipled fusion of classical liberal and socialist ideals while modern conservatism is an untenable hybrid of economic liberalism and social conservatism.

Examines war and literature through the writings of veterans who came home from their deployments to pursue literary careers. This book provides comprehensive studies of some important but underappreciated soldier poets.

Examines war and literature through the writings of veterans who came home from their deployments to pursue literary careers. This book provides comprehensive studies of some important but underappreciated soldier poets.

Details ACORN's (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) founding and its strategies, including accounts and analyses of its campaigns on the living wage, voter turnout, predatory lending, redlining, school reform, and community redevelopment, as well as a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape.

To a degree unique among democracies, the US has always placed responsibility for running national elections in the hands of county, city, and town officials. This book explores the causes and consequences of America's localized voting system, explaining its historical development and its impact on American sovereignty and democratic equality.

The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. This book addresses how to best provide opportunities for enhancing civic learning and forming lasting civic identities.

Ritual space has been shown to be a sensitive barometer to examine population movement and interregional transit and trade. This title details changes in ritual paraphernalia and ritual practice over 2,000 years of Maya history, creating a preliminary model for highland-lowland interaction and changing local cultural affiliations.

The Classic Maya 'collapse' has been attributed to environmental destruction, declining dietary health, and social changes such as increased warfare or changing economies. This study explores these models using ancient animal remains recovered from the Petexbatun archaeological sites.

Contains thirteen essays that explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. This collection discusses travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.

In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new spirituality, which stressed interiority and a personal relationship with God, was considered dangerous and subversive. It provoked the suspicion of the Inquisition and the wrath of unreformed Carmelites, especially the Andalusian friars, who favored the lax practices of their traditional monasteries. The Inquisition investigated Teresa repeatedly, and the Carmelite General had her detained. But even during the most terrible periods of persecution, Teresa continued to fight for the reform using the weapon she wielded best: the pen. Teresa wrote hundreds, perhaps thousands, of letters to everyone from the King to prelates to mothers of novices. Teresa's epistolary writing reveals how she used her political acumen to dodge inquisitors and negotiate the thorny issues of the reform, facing off the authorities--albeit with considerable tact--and reprimanding priests and nuns who failed to follow her orders. Her letters bring to light the different strategies she used--code names, secret routing--in order to communicate with nuns and male allies. They show how she manipulated language, varying her tone and rhetoric according to the recipient or slipping into deliberate vagueness in order to avoid divulging secrets. What emerges from her correspondence is a portrait of extraordinary courage, ability, and shrewdness.In the sixteenth century, the word letrado (lettered) referred to the learned men of the Church. Teresa treated letrados with great respect and always insisted on her own lack of learning. The irony is that although women could not be letradas, Teresa was, as her correspondence shows, "e;lettered"e; in more ways than one.

Presents twenty-six stories that show the mystery and immediacy of ecological processes ranging from the microscopic to the tectonic as well as surprising intersections of creatures from different realms or the hidden interplay of evolving organisms.

Presents stories of black and white Americans, men and women, from all parts of the nation, who were public school students during the years immediately after Brown. This book provides a picture of how social change can shape the careers of an entire generation in one profession.

Reflects on some of the most difficult issues in higher education, such as how to handle racism and political passions in the classroom, as well as how a teacher presents his own political convictions.

Focusing on the controversial website Wikipedia, this work explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the electronic and networked writing environments that their students use every day.

Offers analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofia Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, and journalist. This study addresses the scandalous disappearance of Casanova and her female contemporaries from accounts of the emergence of the modern Spanish nation.

The University of Oxford had been an exclusively male bastion of privilege and opportunity. Few dreamed this could change. This title traces not only the institutional struggles over privileges and disciplinary rules for women, but also the texture of everyday life - women's amateur theatricals, debating societies, sports, and college escapades.