Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
An Arrow In My Heart: A First Nation Woman’s Account of Survival from the Streets to the Height of Academia
Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948
Street Economies in the Urban Global South
Unequal Time Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Universities at War
Although budget cuts made to the university sector by Margaret Thatcher’s government were followed by a degree of relative prosperity, more recently, even harsher attitudes towards the state funding of higher education (or anything else) have, Thomas Docherty argues in this passionate book, ensured that “money has systematically replaced thought as the key driver and raison d’être of the institution’s official existence”.
Working with Families: A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History
Science and Pseudoscience in Social Work Practice
While many psychosocial interventions used in social work practice have strong research evidence supporting their efficacy, a surprising number do not, potentially resulting in harmful outcomes. With the goal of promoting critical thinking among social workers and related professionals, this book evaluates commonly used scientific and pseudoscientific practices in social work today.
Improving Genetics Education in Graduate and Continuing Health Professional Education: Workshop Summary
Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise: Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary
Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All
Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world.
The Grandmothers’ Movement: Solidarity and Survival in the Time of AIDS
The politics of old age: Older people’s interest organisations and collective action in Ireland
The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life. An important aspect is the manner in which older people and their representative groups are given the opportunity to articulate their interests in the policy-making process.
Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
Are most teenage—or younger—children really going to sex parties and having multiple sexual encounters in an orgy-like fashion? Researchers say no—teen sex is actually not rampant and teen pregnancy is at low levels. But why do stories like these find such media traffic, exploiting parents’ worst fears? How do these rumors get started, and how do they travel around the country and even across the globe?
Global Health Watch 4: An Alternative World Health Report
Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice
Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing, and Policy Adoption
Community Criminology: Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias
Diversity, Oppression, and Change: Culturally Grounded Social Work, 2nd Ed.
The SAGE Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
The economics of disability: Insights from Irish research
Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies become a new kind of global biocapital.
The Child Cases: How America’s Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary manslaughter because she failed to provide her daughter with medical care, choosing instead to rely on spiritual healing. During the next few years, a half dozen other children of Christian Science parents died under similar circumstances. The children’s deaths and the parents’ trials drew national attention, highlighting a deeply rooted, legal/political struggle to define religious freedom.
Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative approaches—and how best to employ them for research on specific demographic groups.
Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room
Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use different sentencing standards than for adults. Yet, when police bring kids in for questioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults, including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants.
The Violence of Care Rape Victims: Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research
Fight back: Punk, politics and resistance
The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship
The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States: A Biography of Herbert Aptheker
Are the Irish different?
We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth
A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the ‘Atlantic Heartland’. However, if we look at the history of the ‘Heartland’ economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first place – that is, the economic policies and discourses in these countries did not follow neoliberal prescriptions. /We Have Never Been Neoliberal/ explores this divergence between neoliberal theory and ‘neoliberal’ practice by focusing on the underlying contradictions in monetarism, private monopolies, and financialization. The book finishes by proposing a ‘manifesto for a doomed youth’ in which it argues that younger generations should refuse to pay interest on anything in order to avoid the trap of debt-driven living.
The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968
After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that victory in the next battle for civil rights would be measured in “equal results” rather than equal rights and opportunities.
Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World
Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism
The Bully Society School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools
Feminism and Men
Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk
Although clinical trials generate vast amounts of data, a large por-tion is never published or made available to other researchers. Data sharing could advance scientific discovery and improve clinical care by maximizing the knowl¬edge gained from data collected in trials, stimulating new ideas for research, and avoiding unnecessarily duplicative trials.