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Bodies Unbound
Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy
By Piper Sledge
Rutgers University Press
Bodies Unbound is a story about the relationship between bodies and gender. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations, Piper Sledge explores how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care when medical professionals use their position of authority to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not.
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
Neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009
Edited by H. Adlai Murdoch
Rutgers University Press
This essay collection examines the social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009, and the ways in which capital accumulation and centralization instantiated hierarchies of profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation in the wider non-sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico.
The Devil's Fruit
Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice
Rutgers University Press
The Devil’s Fruit uses anthropology’s tool kit to examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships in California’s agricultural industry. Rather than stopping at description and critique, Saxton explores how activist ethnographic methods and ethics align, conflict, and support ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice.
Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography
The Pornographic Object of Knowledge
Rutgers University Press
Pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. This book explores how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies.
Nursing the Nation
Building the Nurse Labor Force
Rutgers University Press
Nursing the Nation explores how nurses became employees of hospital and care agencies rather than independent, individual contractors. It also demonstrates how nurses missed opportunities to control their own destinies in practice, but gained the ability to establish themselves as the most critical part of health care today.
Hear #MeToo in India
News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
By Pallavi Guha
Rutgers University Press
This book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India.
Growing Old in a New China
Transitions in Elder Care
Rutgers University Press
An accessible ethnographic exploration of aging and institutional elder care in China today, this book puts older adults at the center of the story. Set within a broader historical narrative of ceaseless change and transition, it explores attempts by elders, family members, caregivers, and society to achieve balance and harmony in both life and death.
From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors
Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films
Rutgers University Press
Peter W.Y. Lee explores how the legacy of the Great Depression and World War II shaped the formative years of the Cold War. Lee uses youth culture in American films to show how the postwar concerns over the family, race, militarism, and internationalism were carryovers from the past 15 years, which coalesced into anticommunism.
College Belonging
How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life
By Lisa M. Nunn
Rutgers University Press
College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to “get out there!” and “find your place” by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works.
An Organ of Murder
Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in America, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity
Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism
Rutgers University Press
This book is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists claiming what is commonly thought to be an extinct ethnic category.
The Movie Musical
Rutgers University Press
Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and technical innovation, while foregrounding the experiences of women, immigrants and people of color.
The Hudson
An Illustrated Guide to the Living River
Rutgers University Press
Since 1996, The Hudson has been an essential guide to the full sweep of the great river's natural history and human heritage. This updated third edition includes the latest information about the ongoing fight against pollution, plus vibrant new full-color illustrations showing the plants and wildlife that make this ecosystem so special.
Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts
Marvel, Diversity and the 21st Century Superhero
Rutgers University Press
Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has racially diversified its lineup and reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther, recast legacy heroes like Ms. Marvel, and developed new ones like the Latina Miss America.
Our Intelligent Bodies
Rutgers University Press
In Our Intelligent Bodies, physiology professor Gary F. Merrill takes you on a guided tour through the human body and its marvelously sophisticated autonomic systems. Written in a fun, easy-to-comprehend style, it will give you a new appreciation for the smart decisions our bodies are making when our brains aren’t paying attention.
Humanity's Last Stand
Confronting Global Catastrophe
By Mark Schuller; Foreword by Cynthia McKinney
Rutgers University Press
Exploring the interconnections between climate change, global capitalism, xenophobia, and white supremacy, this book dares to ask big questions about how humanity can stand together in a time of crisis. It teaches readers how to develop radical empathy, move beyond simply identifying as “allies” of disempowered peoples and start acting as “accomplices.”
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits
Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books
Rutgers University Press
Taking a critical look at the gender presentation of DC and Marvel superheroes like Superman, Captain America, Batwoman, Luke Cage, and Storm, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.
False Dawn
The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing
Rutgers University Press
Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States.
Documenting the American Student Abroad
The Media Cultures of International Education
By Kelly Hankin
Rutgers University Press
Documenting the American Student Abroad explores the documentary media cultures that shape our views of study abroad, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. Author Kelly Hankin shows how the institutional values of “global citizenship,” “intercultural communication,” and “cultural immersion” emerge in contradictory ways through their representation.
Climbing a Broken Ladder
Contributors of College Success for Youth in Foster Care
Rutgers University Press
Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Climbing a Broken Ladder examines a wide range factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree.
All Politics Are God’s Politics
Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy
Rutgers University Press
Are Muslims in the Arab Middle East and North Africa fundamentally undemocratic? Pundits in the US often say yes, but Ahmed Khanani argues that this simplistic answer is incorrect. Instead, he shows, socially conservative, politically active Muslims value democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya as a frame that reflects and extends their religious values.
All Politics Are God's Politics
Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy
Rutgers University Press
Are Muslims in the Arab Middle East and North Africa fundamentally undemocratic? Pundits in the US often say yes, but Ahmed Khanani argues that this simplistic answer is incorrect. Instead, he shows, socially conservative, politically active Muslims value democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya as a frame that reflects and extends their religious values.
The Complexity of Evil
Perpetration and Genocide
Rutgers University Press
Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda, and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia.
Streetwalking
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Rutgers University Press
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
Rutgers University Press
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.
Caribbean Migrations
The Legacies of Colonialism
Rutgers University Press
The Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects”, and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.
Bio-Imperialism
Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility
Rutgers University Press
Bio-Imperialism critiques an understudied dimension of the war on terror—US focus on bioterror and germ threats. The book examines the post-9/11 mobilization of bioscience and public health fields to this effort, alongside narratives of Arab/Muslim terror, US vulnerability, white femininity, techno-scientific progress, and pandemic preparedness. The book argues that the US significantly advanced its global control over biological, medical, and health resources during the war on terror.
Alternative Realities
Rutgers University Press
Alternative Realities explores how the distinctions between cinematic fantasy and filmic realism are more porous than we might think by examining the emotional realism of superhero movies like Wonder Woman, the trickery of virtual reality movies like The Matrix, and the ironic gestures of mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap.
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
Memory, Kinship, and Personhood
Rutgers University Press
In Poland, active aging programs both take on meanings associated with the country’s transition from socialism to capitalism and exceed such narratives of progress by resonating with older forms of activity in late life. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging, Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland shows how everyday practices and shared ideas about the Polish nation offer possibilities for living a valued, meaningful life in old age.
Acts of Repair
Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Rutgers University Press
Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina--a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing.
Stanley Kubrick Produces
Rutgers University Press
Stanley Kubrick Produces examines Kubrick’s role as a producer. With the use of neglected archival sources, the book makes the case for how Kubrick’s centralizing of power in his role as a producer became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production.
Unsettling
Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture
By Eli Bromberg
Rutgers University Press
Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted representations of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. By analyzing how artists and media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men alleged of incestuous behavior became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability.
Through Japanese Eyes
Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America
By Yohko Tsuji
Rutgers University Press
Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.
The Other End of the Needle
Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers
Rutgers University Press
The Other End of the Needle encourages readers to step into the complex world of tattooists. Through interviews with tattooists, and observations in their shops, Lane challenges us to understand how people collectively create and sustain culture. By asking how people make things, this book shows how tattoos are more than just images on the skin.
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
By Jaimie Baron
Rutgers University Press
Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys the range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage in order to theorize their implications.
Premed Prep
Advice from a Medical School Admissions Dean
By Sunny Nakae
Rutgers University Press
Anxious about applying to medical school? Dr. Sunny Nakae is here to help, drawing from her many years of experience as an admissions dean to offer wise and compassionate practical advice on how to develop a strong application while also enjoying the intellectual and personal growth that will make you a great doctor.
Performing Math
A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom
By Andrew Fiss
Rutgers University Press
Performing Math uncovers math anxiety’s history in stage fright, and how math communication has involved a considerable amount of theatrical performance. Andrew Fiss argues for a new, performance-oriented history of American math education, one that can explain contemporary math attitudes and provide a way forward in reframing the problem of math anxiety.
Linked Lives
Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka
Rutgers University Press
When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives invites readers into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village to find out how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.
Has It Come to This?
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink
Rutgers University Press
Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that a climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume are exploring.
Gentrification Down the Shore
By Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta
Rutgers University Press
Gentrification in cities in the United States is a hot topic, but this book contributes something new to the ongoing discussion by offering a rich case study of seasonal gentrification and its effects on long time residents. Summer days in Asbury once again mean tourists strolling the boardwalk and dining by the Atlantic Ocean. But just across the railroad tracks from the seasonal crowds, many of Asbury’s long-time residents live below the poverty line and struggle for their share of this prosperity throughout all four seasons of the year.
Forget Burial
HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
By Marty Fink
Rutgers University Press
Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence.These early HIV care-giving narratives continue to shape how we understand our genders and our disabilities, forming ongoing chosen families for body self-determination.
American War Stories
Rutgers University Press
American War Stories breaks down the American perception of wars and focuses on how and why we conceptualize the “war” story. It is one of the first studies to ask readers to contemplate what constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalizing of militarism in American culture.
Citizen Power
A Citizen Leadership Manual, New Jersey Edition
Rutgers University Press
CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service
The Thinking Woman
By Julienne van Loon; Foreword by Anne Summers
Rutgers University Press
Australian novelist Julienne van Loon engages with eight world-renowned female intellectuals, writers, and activists to consider what philosophy might teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
The Boxing Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
By Travis Vogan
Rutgers University Press
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, than any other sport,The Boxing Film explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media, by tracing how boxing films inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Stanley Kubrick
New York Jewish Intellectual
Rutgers University Press
Stanley Kubrick reexamines this internationally renowned director’s work in the context of the unique cultural milieu from which he emerged. Digging deep into rare archives to reveal insights about Kubrick’s life and times, Nathan Abrams also offers an in-depth analysis of classics like Lolita, 2001, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket.
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková
Rutgers University Press
Despite the centrality of family in both Jewish and Romani cultures, this is the first scholarly work to focus on the importance of the family in experiences of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Scholars from the US, Israel, and across Europe have contributed new research from the family perspective.
Crossing Segregated Boundaries
Remembering Chicago School Desegregation
By Dionne Danns
Rutgers University Press
Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.
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