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Locker Room Talk
A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
Rutgers University Press
In September 1978, Manhattan’s Southern District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley, the nation’s first Black woman on the federal bench, ordered Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn to provide equal access to all journalists to interview baseball players after games. Her judicial order applied only to Yankee Stadium, but her ruling’s impacts were far reaching. Young women flocked to sports writing and broadcasting at the same time that girls and women began competing more widely in sports due to Title IX. Though Motley's ruling and Title IX legislation boosted opportunities for girls and women in sports, fair, just, civil, and equal treatment of them required decades of advocacy and court battles to gain. The plaintiff in this landmark case, Ludtke vs. Kuhn, was Melissa Ludtke, a Sports Illustrated baseball writer who had been banned by Kuhn from the Yankees' locker room during the 1977 World Series, effectively barring her from performing her role as a journalist. In Locker Room Talk, Ludtke describes what it was like to be a 26-year-old woman who was the publicly ridiculed plaintiff in this media-grabbing, groundbreaking case.
- Publication year: 2024
Intelligent Action
A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia
Rutgers University Press
Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia explores how conceptual and performance artists of the long 1960s developed oppositional practices within and alongside the American university, an institution that registers the priorities of capitalism, technological change, and social justice movements in intensified ways.
- Publication year: 2024
Home is Where Your Politics Are
Queer Activism in the US South and South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The book traverses international borders as boldly as the activists present in the text declare these spaces home.
- Publication year: 2024
Feeling Democracy
Emotional Politics in the New Millennium
Edited by Arlene Stein and Sarah Tobias
Rutgers University Press
Feeling Democracy explores the complex relationship between emotions, democracies, and social movements through a feminist lens. It considers the role of emotions in the public sphere, which is often gendered as masculine, and shows how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics.
- Publication year: 2024
Beaches, Bays, and Barrens
A Natural History of the Jersey Shore
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey is a land of contrasts. Not of climate or altitude, but in the depth of its human footprint. At one end of this spectrum lie the high-density trappings of urbanization and industrial development, but miles of beaches and salt marshes interspersed with bays and inlets mark the other end, including the sandy wonderland of the Pine Barrens. Beaches, Bays, and Barrens deals with the latter, and includes seven chapters supported by 23 stand-alone “infoboxes” and 75 figures. An appendix lists the Latin names for organisms mentioned in the text.
- Publication year: 2024
The United States and the Armenian Genocide
History, Memory, Politics
Rutgers University Press
In 2021 the United States officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, ending five decades of political ambiguity by the U.S. government. That the U.S. maintained a position of non-recognition over several decades made this case a remarkable example of continuity in U.S. policy. Zarifian seeks to understand why the position of the United States evolved from a de facto recognition of the Armenian Genocide to an ambivalent policy of “neutrality” that implicitly supported Turkey’s official policy of denial.
- Publication year: 2024
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
Rutgers University Press
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.
- Publication year: 2024
The Other Jersey Shore
Life on the Delaware River
By Michael Aaron Rockland; Foreword by Maya K. van Rossum
Rutgers University Press
The Other Jersey Shore is not a guidebook for tourists with details about canoe rentals, but rather a cultural handbook to this lesser known but beautiful region of the state written by one of the preeminent authorities on New Jersey history and culture. New Jersey, Rockland notes, has not one but two shores, one of which has for too long been largely ignored. There is, Rockland shows, much beauty and adventure to be found there.
- Publication year: 2024
Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize
Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties
Rutgers University Press
In Belize, Conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed by state and NGO strategies, pursue claims for Indigenous rights to lands. This book explores the conflicting forms of governance that emerge as these trajectories intersect.
- Publication year: 2024
At the Glacier’s Edge
A Natural History of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point
Rutgers University Press
At the Glacier's Edge explores Long Island's natural world through the eyes of a longtime resident. She tells the story of how the island was formed and how humans have degraded its habitats and threatened its plans and animals. She offers hope in the efforts to preserve and restore the land.
- Publication year: 2024
Meltdown Expected
Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s
Rutgers University Press
The story of how the “Me Decade” of the 1970s transformed into the final phase of the Cold War. From the revolution in Iran, the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, to a proxy war between the US and USSR in Afghanistan, it is the story of how the seventies ended before the decade was over.
- Publication year: 2024
Surviving Alex
A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction
Rutgers University Press
Patricia Roos was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when she lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, she began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story while describing a more compassionate approach that would provide proper care to substance users and reduce addiction.
- Publication year: 2024
Speaking Frankly
The Extraordinary Life of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Rutgers University Press
- Publication year: 2024
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
Rutgers University Press
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.
- Publication year: 2024
Notes from Home
Edited by Jonna McKone
Rutgers University Press
This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.
- Publication year: 2021
The Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
Rutgers University Press
Headstrong art historian Leyla is expecting a baby with feckless computer technician Pablo. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. But when the writings by utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella unlocks the secret of a painting and a mystical gateway to 17th-century Naples, Leyla and Michael embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.
- Publication year: 2024
The Georgia of the North
Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migration to 1954 as they laid the foundations of the American civil rights movement in the North in the process.
- Publication year: 2024
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
By Aarti Ratna
Rutgers University Press
In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.
- Publication year: 2024
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Rutgers University Press
This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers.
- Publication year: 2024
The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov
Rutgers University Press
Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.
- Publication year: 2024
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