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Draws a portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition. This title chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy.

Explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of todays black political agenda

Despite her disabilities, Helen Keller worked tirelessly for human rights and other political issues.

From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change, embracing multiple roles to sustain the black freedom struggle in America, founding numerous groups and mentoring younger activists. This title profiles the stories of these women.

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. This title tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.

Tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society. This book traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place.

Explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.

What can today's influx of Evangelical leadership tell us about Christianity and society at large?

Offers an alternative vision of how US borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. This book suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001.

Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St Patrick's Cathedral in honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing - and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform. This book examines this juxtaposition of religion and politics.

A guide to finding legal solutions to the most pressing issues facing women. It explores the concept of equal protection and covers topics including employment, education, housing, and public accommodations.

A fascinating insiders look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social change

Compares the First Amendment with free speech law in Japan, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

A history of the American Federation of Labor, which played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s.

A leading mental health expert diagnoses a crippled system of care

Juffer (women's studies and English, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) takes a position not of liberation or transgression, but of domestication. She explores how women are bringing sex under their control for their own pleasure in everyday life through such means as women's literary erotica, mastur

An analysis of the major issues surrounding judicial elections. It presents evidence on a range of important topics, including the history of judicial elections; an understanding of the types of judicial elections; and electoral competition during races.

Examines how to study unexpected, accidental, or unknowable political phenomena in a systematic fashion

Discusses how media technology impacts the Jewish experience. This title explores mid-twentieth-century ecumenical radio and television broadcasting, video documentation of life cycle rituals, and museum displays and tourist practices as means for engaging the Holocaust as a moral touchstone.

Reveals that New York's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief promoted a racialized and gendered definition of poverty and citizenship.

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting 'unsightly beggars' sprang up in cities across America. This title presents the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in its historical context and exploring in detail what the laws meant.

A practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behaviour

Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.

Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.

Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. This book examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny.

From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, this book offers a contemporary account of the lives of rural queer youth. It maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders.

Includes case studies that examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups - from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa - and gives a sense of what everyday life is like in immigrant families.

Includes case studies that examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups - from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa - and gives a sense of what everyday life is like in immigrant families.

From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called 'the city that never sleeps' for nothing. This book reveals several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan's nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.

Through an analysis of the history of the problem and an empirical review of the literature, including specific cases and their outcomes, this book demonstrates that practices are based more on collective fears and moral passions than on any supportive science or sound policy.