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Shows how queer activists are learning from the corporate model to leverage their differences to compete with other non-profit groups, enhance their public reputation or moral standing, and establish their diversity-related expertise.

Explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

Tells the story of the Reverend Dunbar Ogden, who became the pro-integration leader in Little Rock's white community. He responded to a call for support from Daisy Bates, co-owner of the town's black newspaper. Both faced fierce opposition from within as well as from outside. Reverend Ogden lost his church and Daisy Bates lost her newspaper.

Contains stories of the civil rights movement, a moral, social and political upheaval that changed the South in so many ways. This book tells stories of the ordinary people, as well as the icons.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions, this work discusses how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship.

The Law Department was one of two departments that opened for classes in the fall of 1874 in the newly-founded Vanderbilt University. Based on interviews and archival research in personal papers, reports, Board of Trust and faculty meeting minutes, this book presents the history of the school.

An ethnography that juxtaposes the context of post-war reconstruction at home, shaped by a fragile institutional peace process and emerging pan-Maya movement, with the hidden, marginal lives of mostly undocumented K'iche' transmigrants in New England, and describes the movement of people, money, symbols, and ideas between the two locations.

Analyzes the state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, this work argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders have embraced ideologically driven initiatives that pursue impractical objectives or will take too long to bear fruit.

Profiles different types of wife killers, and examines the courtship patterns of abusive men. This work shows that wife murders are not ""crimes of passion,"" but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who murder, and that many elements of their crimes are foretold by their past behavior in intimate relationships.

In the late 1960s, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. This title includes reflections on the careers of Gagnon and Simon, and examines the construction of both sexual identity and sexual behaviors in a variety of settings.

In the late 1960s, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. This title includes reflections on the careers of Gagnon and Simon, and examines the construction of both sexual identity and sexual behaviors in a variety of settings.

Explores romantic relationships between teenage boys as they were portrayed before, during, and immediately after World War II. This work takes the reader through a landscape of media - sci fi pulps, comics, adventure stories, tales of teen sleuths, boys' serial novels, wartime bestsellers, and movies populated by many types of male adolescents.

Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, they believe that change is possible, and they enjoy working with people. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods - women and men of different races and economic backgrounds.

One night, social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. This title offers her anecdotes and reflections about race: acceptance and prejudice from others; the feelings of her two children about having a sibling of a different race; and efforts to maintain links to the culture of the child's origin.

Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. This book details the responses of women's colleges to this wave of coeducation.

Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. This book details the responses of women's colleges to this wave of coeducation.

In order to address challenges like education, crime prevention, and economic development, communities have been forced to find ways for people and public servants to work together. This book, with stories of civic experiments, shows the realpolitik of deliberative democracy and illustrates how the evolution of democracy is reshaping politics.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary, cinematic, and graphic images of Mexican national identity in the 1980s and '90s. Discussing, in depth, writings, films, and cartoons from a vast array of contemporary sources, this book creates a social history of this important shift.

In a series of interviews, 32 men and women describe the ways in which they have responded to their spinal cord injuries. They discuss their sex lives, their beliefs about God, how they want others to treat them, and their hopes of walking again. This book explores the impacts of both physical impairment and the social environment.

Examines women's access to sex education, maternity care, family planning, and abortion, and analyzes how much power women in diverse contexts have to negotiate sexual practices. This book is suitable for courses in women's studies, globalization, public health, and political science.

Taking up the relationship between ethics and literature, this is a political autobiography of,Kimberly Nance, a Latin American activist, who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change - was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical form of literature.

From vanishing neon flying squids to dinosaur habitat upheavals by earthquake, each tale brings the reader into the moment to witness an episode of survival in the wild. This illustrated book includes chapter notes that document the scientific basis for each story and describe the controversies still surrounding some of them.

Because these poems do not idealize love and marriage, they may raise eyebrows as readers examine the various expressions through which the poet identifies the essence of true love. The poems' strength lies in their honesty and intimacy and in the openness to the pain and self-understanding that both ardor and conflict can produce.

The fact that women and people of color tend to underperform at professional schools is a source of controversy. Conservatives blame affirmative action, while liberals blame intentional discrimination. The research reported in this book belies both conspiracy theories, based on several hours of observation in two very different environments.

From the first scholarship given to Harvard in 1643 to today's world of ""enrollment management"" and federal grants and loans, the author gives a lively social and economic history of the conflicting purposes of student aid. His research for this book is based on archives and interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the US.

At the height of the Vietnam War, Jerry Elmer committed his first felony by refusing to register for the draft. Over the next 20 years, using nonviolent tactics, Jerry worked for peace, justice, and the environment. Here, he gives us his lifetime of lessons in nonviolent protest as an example for all who wish to make a positive difference today.