Books published by Rutgers University Press

Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. This interdisciplinary volume presents empirical inquiries into today's science, including examples of gendered scientific inquiry and medical interventions and research. It analyzes how scientific and medical knowledge produces gender norms through an emphasis on sex differences, and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and examples.

The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. This book provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control.

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide. Through powerful stories readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide.

Supermax prisons are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of the people within. This examines why nine prominent advanced industrialised countries have adopted the supermax prototype, paying particular attention to the economic, social, and political processes that have affected each nation.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, discussions on ties between Islamic religious education institutions, namely madrassahs, and transnational terrorist groups have featured prominently in the Western media. This book examines these institutions and their roles in relation to international politics.

Provides discussion of essential concepts in the field of Jewish Studies that have emerged over the last two centuries, such as history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory. It is oriented by contemporary critical theory, especially feminist and postcolonial studies, and the multidisciplinary approaches of cultural studies.

The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. This work describes what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation.

Drawing on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain the sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television in the 1990s, this book brings together analysis of relevant Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay rights battles, debates about multiculturalism, concerns over political correctness, and much more.

Examines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. This book brings fresh perspectives to the promotion of ""extreme"" makeovers on television, the medicalization of ""surgery addiction,"" the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.

This analyzes the politics of gender in the animal rights movement, incorporating in-depth interviews with women and participant observation of animal rights organizations, conferences, and protests to describe struggles over divisions of labour and leadership.

This uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work - including health care, education and child care, and social services - drawing on an in-depth analysis of US Census data as well as a range of occupational histories.

Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such things as the war in Vietnam, the 1960s, so Post-Boomers have grown up in less structured households with working (often divorced) parents. This title offers a perceptive look at the face of Christianity in contemporary culture.

Brings together an array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. This work talks about their research with survivors of war, occupation, massacres, and displacement.

This text analyzes the practices involved in procuring human tissue, and examines how the German past and present-day situation within the European Union are key in understanding the form that medical practices take within various contexts.

The Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until her early death at the age of thirty-nine. A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel touched the hearts, validated the ideals, and assuaged the anxieties of a huge readership, and it remained continuously in print until the 1920s.

Explores the counterterrorism-themed show ""24"", Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance.

A collection of essays, which explore the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education and suggest changes that could make universities more family-friendly workplaces. It addresses topics that range from the level of policy to practical day-to-day concerns, including caring for a child with special needs, and breastfeeding on campus.

Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of colour communities. This collection of essays pays tribute to the contributions women have made in these endeavours.

Memories of Undervelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. This double volume includes the complete continuity script of ""Memories"", as well as the complete novel, ""Inconsolable Memories"", upon which the film is based.

President Johnson would not compromise or equivocate on civil rights. John Kennedy of Massachusetts yielded to the pressure of events and became an ally of the movement, despite his fear that supporting civil rights could cost him votes in Congress and the nation. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, whom liberals loathed because he often gutted their prize legislation, became the committed champion of civil rights. Together their administrations became synonymous with the Second Reconstruction, though neither president had a prior record of strong civil rights commitment. Mark Stern explains how each man pursued power and votes, and ultimately redirected his own course of action and altered the nation's future.

Brings together eight wide-reaching and provocative essays that examine the practical and theoretical issues of reproductive health policy and implementation. This book assesses the impact of policies that have been initiated and consider future directions that governments must take in order to translate visionary ideas into actual achievements.

This collection of short stories features moving tales from the rich Caribbean oral tradition, stories that question women's traditional roles, present women's perspectives on the history of Caribbean slavery and colonialism, and convey the beautiful cadences of the language of Caribbean women.

The author's 46 interviews with the families of children with chronic illness gives an understanding of how the children comprehend their illnesses and how parents struggle daily to care for their kids while trying to give them a ""normal"" childhood.