An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themself into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity.
This book examines how ideas about bodies, homes, and nature were deployed to serve three interrelated imperatives: the healthy population, the nation, and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an analysis of archive material it explores how the role of women in 'progressive' reform was a form of governmentality.
The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East
Young people in the Middle East (15-29 years old) constitute about one-third of the region's population. Growth rates for this age group trail only sub-Saharan Africa.
Exploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings.
How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies. Today there are more than a hundred Black Studies degree programs in the United States, many of them located in ......
Argues that since the 1980s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States. This title also argues that the political differences between urban and suburban voters have found expression in changes in congressional representation and new electoral strategies for the major political parties.
“Anne Ring to the rescue! Her accessible, meticulously researched, wide-ranging book is packed with science and stories about the positives and pitfalls of growing old. Readers will come away equipped to make the most of the years ahead, whatever they may hold.” - Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?
Wright (law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford U.) traces the basic legal and political implications of life for the desperately poor, arguing that the law fails to recognize the special circumstances of the severely deprived. He explores the Constitution as it is applied to the poor in our society
De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics reevaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness evolves amidst current race and intercultural communication research, underscoring that, in order to play well with intersectionality, research scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.
De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics reevaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness evolves amidst current race and intercultural communication research, underscoring that, in order to play well with intersectionality, research scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.
Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
"This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about ......
The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great economic and historic importance. The ......
How to use what you already have to get what you actually want
Breaking the Gender Code explores the myths created by the Gender Code and how they drive our own personal myths, with a particular focus on business and career women who are juggling families and careers. For many us the myths around career and motherhood have fed into the illusion of having it all.
Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles, revised edition
American educators have largely failed to recognize the crucial significance of culture in the education of African-American children, contends Janic E. Hale in the revised edition of her groundbreaking work, ''Black Children.'' As African-American children are acculturated at home and in the African-American community, they develop cognitive ......
This study examines the historical and contemporary experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with American football. It analyzes how they have used the sport to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism.
A Modern Investigation of Lived Experiences and Media Portrayals
This book explores the representation of American Roma from the nineteenth-century to today by examining portrayals in newsprint, television, movies, and social media.
Addresses the key issues around mobility and transportation for the aging Baby Boomer generation - issues that will be significantly different than those of previous generations of older adults. This volume examines many of the issues faced by policymakers, transportation officials, vehicle manufacturers, health and human services professionals, ......