Books published by Rutgers University Press

What do Christians do with the Bible? How do they - individually and collectively - interact with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? This book addresses such questions.

Traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity. This book addresses gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

Focusing on how science works and how pseudoscience works, this work demonstrates the futility of 'scientific' creationism. It debunks the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form. It concludes with a frank discussion of science and religion.

Interprets six essential Biblical texts. This book shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.

An anthology of ten essays that looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from various angles. It promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives.

Challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.

Addresses key areas of concern and importance to urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowner's associations, and big box stores. Through the inclusion of examples and photos, this work creates an accessible portrait of the suburbs supported by data, anecdotes, and social theory.

Featuring more than sixty images of the Brooklyn bridge, this volume traces the diverse ways that this structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea.

Demonstrates and describes the two types of realignments - ""idealist"" and ""civic"" - that have alternated with one another throughout the nation's history. This book examines the impact of the Millennial Makeover on the elections, issues, and public policies that will characterize America's politics.

Offers a perspective on the structure, function, and care of the major systems of the human body. This work relays medical facts alongside personal stories that help students relate to and apply the information. It teaches the basics of feedback control systems, homeostasis, and physiological gradients.

Presents an opinion that we must understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. This book shows how easily observable species are part of a complicated infrastructure. It also shows that forests are far more complicated, which means simplistic policies will not save them.

Provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive theoretical framework, this title maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches.

A collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period onwards. This title takes into account the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region.

Provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the US response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic. This book shows how the association of the disease with ""tramps"" during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups.

The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Drawing upon statistical data and interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, this work assesses the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work.

Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as ""Japanese America's poet laureate."" This work presents an account of Suyemoto, which includes information about policies and wartime decisions, and recounts the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This title explores the girls' organizations that sprang up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective.