Ethical issues, topics and debates Books
Spinifex Press The Idea of Prostitution
Book SynopsisSheila Jeffreys explodes the distinction between “forced” and “free” prostitution, and documents the expanding international traffic in women. She examines the claims of the prostitutes’ rights movement and the sex industry, while supporting prostituted women. Her argument is threefold: the sex of prostitution is not just sex; the work of prostitution is not ordinary work; and prostitution is a ‘choice’ not for the prostituted women, but for the men who abuse them.
£16.96
Spinifex Press Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global
Book SynopsisUnmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as ‘just a bit of fun’ Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography.Trade Review"This is by far the best and most significant of these recent books. It comes from Spinifex, a feminist press in Australia, where radical feminism is prospering rather more than in the U.S. (Spinifex was recently profiled by Barry, 2016). With 40 solid chapters, this is the richest such feminist collection since Laura Lederers (1980) Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography and/or Diana Russells (1983) Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography." Robert Bannon in Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and ViolenceShortlisted as a secondary reference source - 'Highly Commended' - in the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012.Contributor Meagan Tyler from Victoria University, Australia was a speaker at the Challenging Porn Conference, at London Metropolitan University in early December 2011.
£18.66
University College Dublin Press Moral Monopoly: Rise and Fall of the Catholic
Book SynopsisThis is an explanation of how the Catholic Church came to hold such a powerful position in Irish society, and the factors central to the decline in the Church's monopoly on morality.Trade Review"This is a fascinating and very readable study of the growth and diminution of the Church's influence over all aspects of life in Ireland from the beginning of the last century up to the present." The Irish Emigrant Book Review March 1998 "This fine book avoids the juvenile tendency prevalent in recent times, to deride the Catholic Church. Even when Inglis criticises the Church he does so with reasoned arguments and non-hysterical tone. As a result he valuably contributes to debate on the Church's future in Ireland." Denis Carroll RTE Guide Sept 1998 "This is a fascinating and very readable study of the growth and diminution of the Church's influence over all aspects of life in Ireland from the beginning of the last century up to the present day." Boston Irish Reporter May 1998Table of ContentsReligious habitus of Irish Catholics; church organization and control; power and the Catholic church in Irish social, political and economic life; growth of the power of the institutional church in 19th-century Ireland; Irish civilizing process; transformation of Irish society; the Irish mother; decline in the Catholic church monopoly on Irish morality, 1986-97; influence of the Catholic church on modern Irish society.
£20.90
Vintage Publishing Dark Heart
Book Synopsis''This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...'' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly detached from the fun of the scene. Davies discovered they were part of a network of children selling themselves on the streets of the city, running a nightly gauntlet of dangers: pimps, punters, the Vice Squad, disease, drugs. This propelled Davies into a journey of discovery through the slums and ghettoes of our cities. He found himself in crack houses and brothels, he befriended street gangs and drug dealers.Davies'' journey into the hidden realm is powerful, disturbing and impressive, and is bound to rouse controversy and demands for change. He unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty, towards the dark heart of British society.Trade ReviewThis book should be required reading...it will shock many to the quick, that all this could be happening under their noses -- Jack Straw * Guardian *He describes what he sees and hears with exemplary clarity, neither pulling punches nor exaggerating... Read him to discover how dreadful a country much of Britain has become -- Theodore Dalrymple * Sunday Telegraph *A most powerful and harrowing piece of investigative journalism...it takes a very brave and persistent reporter to reach the hidden part of Britain that Davies has chosen to explore -- Peregrine Worsthorne * New Statesman *If you want to find out about the poor, you have to go looking. Most people, most writers, don't bother. Nick Davies has bothered, and he should be congratulated...his analysis is spot on -- Robert Crampton * The Times *A brilliant journalistic investigation... A copy should be sent to every Labour MP to remind them of their responsibilities -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
£10.44
Oxford University Press Inc Regulating Bodies
Book SynopsisHow far are we willing to go in the name of better sport?Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and application of new knowledge, science, and technologies has taken elite sports into uncharted territory. It''s no longer enough to break recordstoday''s sport is about athletes surpassing their natural limits in the name of accomplishing the impossible. With highlights across the spectrum of professional athletics from ski jumping to horse racing, Regulating Bodies narrates the global scientization of the sports industry and the lasting influence of protective sports policies on international discourses around race, sex, identity, and impairment. While these classifications are designed to protect athletes'' wellbeing in the spirit of fair play, protective policies can be shallow solutions to deeper problemsoffering the appearance of care while failing to safeguard athletes from more pressing concerns. Regulating Bodies investigates the developmen
£21.84
John Wiley & Sons Inc Stem Cells For Dummies
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative yet accessible guide to this controversial topic Stem Cell Research For Dummies offers a balanced, plain-English look at this politically charged topic, cutting away the hype and presenting the facts clearly for you, free from debate.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Brushing Up on Biology 9 Chapter 1: Painting the Broad Strokes of Stem Cell Science 11 Chapter 2: Understanding Cells and Tissues 21 Chapter 3: Tracing the History of Stem Cell Research 37 Part II: Delving into Stem Cell Science 51 Chapter 4: Starting with Embryonic Stem Cells 53 Chapter 5: Understanding Adult Stem Cells 71 Chapter 6: Exploring Other Stem Cell Sources 87 Chapter 7: Understanding Why Scientists Mix and Match Cells 101 Part III: Discovering How Stem Cells Can Affect the Future 121 Chapter 8: Looking into Cancer’s Cradle: Cancer Stem Cells 123 Chapter 9: Using Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases 137 Chapter 10: Improving Therapies for Diseases of the Heart, Liver, and Pancreas 159 Chapter 11: Improving Drug Development 171 Part IV: Putting Stem Cells to Use Today 181 Chapter 12: Where We Are Now: Stem Cell Treatments, Trials, and Possibilities 183 Chapter 13: Understanding the Role of Stem Cells in Transplants 201 Chapter 14: Putting Stem Cells in the Bank 221 Part V: Understanding the Debate: Ethics, Laws, and Money 231 Chapter 15: Exploring Ethical, Religious, Philosophical, and Moral Questions 233 Chapter 16: Getting a Handle on Current Stem Cell Laws and Policies 249 Chapter 17: Following the Money: Understanding Stem Cell Funding and Profits 269 Part VI: The Part of Tens 285 Chapter 18: Ten (or So) Stem Cell Myths 287 Chapter 19: Ten Hurdles to Stem Cell Use 295 Chapter 20: Ten Possibilities for the Future of Stem Cells 303 Chapter 21: Ten (or So) Things to Do Before You Consider Stem Cell Treatment 311 Chapter 22: Ten (or So) Great Resources to Stay Up to Date 323 Glossary 329 Index 339
£13.49
Oxford University Press Inc Contemporary Moral Arguments
Book SynopsisTaking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues. Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues, Second Edition, opens with an extensive two-chapter introduction to moral reasoning and moral theories that provides students with the background necessary to analyze the arguments in the following chapters. Chapters 3-12 present seventy-six readings that are organized--in the conventional way--into ten topical areas: abortion; drugs and autonomy (new to this edition); euthanasia and assisted suicide; genetic engineering and cloning; the death penalty; war, terrorism, and torture; pornography; economic justice and health care; animal rights and environmental duties; and global obligations to the poor.Offering a special feature not found in other anthologies, the selections are also organized in an unconventional way, by argument, so Table of Contents*=NEW TO THIS EDITION; CHAPTERS 3-12 OPEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION, KEY TERMS, AND ARGUMENTS AND READINGS; EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 1: MORAL REASONING; CHAPTER 2: MORAL THEORIES; CHAPTER 3: ABORTION; 1. WARREN'S PERSONHOOD ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION; 2. NOONAN'S PERSONHOOD-AT-CONCEPTION ARGUMENT AGAINST ABORTION; 3. THOMSON'S SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION; * CHAPTER 4: DRUGS AND AUTONOMY; * 4. THE HARM ARGUMENT AGAINST DRUG USE; * 5. THE ARGUMENT AGAINST PATERNALISM; CHAPTER 5: EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE; 6. THE AUTONOMY ARGUMENT FOR EUTHANASIA; 7. THE KILLING/LETTING DIE ARGUMENT; 8. THE SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT AGAINST EUTHANASIA; CHAPTER 6: GENETIC ENGINEERING AND CLONING; 9. THE BENEFICENCE ARGUMENT FOR GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; 10. THE OPEN-FUTURE ARGUMENT AGAINST CLONING; CHAPTER 7: THE DEATH PENALTY; 11. KANT'S RETRIBUTIVISM ARGUMENT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY; 12. THE DISCRIMINATION ARGUMENT AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY; 13. THE DETERRENCE ARGUMENT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY; CHAPTER 8: WAR, TERRORISM, AND TORTURE; 14. THE PACIFIST ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR; 15. THE SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT FOR WAR; 16. THE JUST WAR ARGUMENT AGAINST TERRORISM; 17. THE TICKING BOMB ARGUMENT FOR TORTURE; CHAPTER 9: PORNOGRAPHY AND FREE SPEECH; 18. THE LIBERTY ARGUMENT AGAINST CENSORSHIP; 19. MACKINNON'S HARM-TO-WOMEN ARGUMENT FOR CENSORSHIP; ECONOMIC JUSTICE: HEALTH CARE; 20. DANIELS'S ARGUMENT FOR A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE; 21. THE ARGUMENT FOR RATIONING BY MORAL WORTHINESS; CHAPTER 11: ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DUTY; 22. SINGER'S "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL" ARGUMENT; 23. REGAN'S ARGUMENT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS; 24. THE SUFFERING ARGUMENT FOR VEGETARIANISM; 25. TAYLOR'S ARGUMENT FOR THE EQUALITY OF ALL LIFE; CHAPTER 12: ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND GLOBAL OBLIGATIONS; 26. HARDIN'S LIFEBOAT ARGUMENT AGAINST AIDING THE POOR; 27. SINGER'S UTILITARIAN ARGUMENT FOR AIDING THE POOR
£104.47
Indiana University Press Legalized Prostitution in Germany
Book SynopsisWeaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of legalized prostitution.Trade ReviewThis thoughtful exploration of legalized prostitution in Neuberg, Germany, includes interactions with sex workers; independent madams; municipal officials; and the owners, employees, and clients of new mega brothels. Staiger (Clarkson Univ.) also discusses Zuhälter—a nebulous category of pimps, traffickers, and others, ostensibly eliminated by the 2002 legalization, that now functions to enforce the new system. Staiger skillfully depicts the paradoxes of German attitudes toward sexuality—on one side, nudity on beaches and in bath houses and spas is not eroticized but acceptable; on the other, public spaces are replete with advertising depicting young, nubile, female bodies, and the heterosexual male gaze and extreme objectification of women are virtually unchallenged. -- A. H. Koblitz, emerita, Arizona State University * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sex in the Public Sphere2. The Decline of the Red Light District3. The New Red Light Geography and Changing Regimes of Prostitution4. Work and Life at the Flamingo: Portraits of the Girls5. Zuhälter on the Brothel Floor and Labor Discipline6. Prestige, Belonging, and Coercion: The Gift in Sex for Sale7. Sex Clients: At the Club, On the Forum, and at the PubConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£49.50
PublicAffairs,U.S. Invisible Rulers
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£22.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc We Have Been Harmonized
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£15.19
Elsevier Science Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
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£755.25
The University of Chicago Press Temporarily Yours
Book SynopsisDespite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. This work paints a picture of the state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture.Trade Review"This is an ambitious book - highly readable, compelling, and original. Bernstein's claim is that the character and organization of sex work has shifted. Whereas the signature form of sex work used to be the nonwhite streetwalker working in largely marginal neighborhoods, today, she reveals, sex work is largely private, relying heavily on the Internet, and provided by someone that is as often white and middle-class as nonwhite and poor." - Steven Seidman, author of Beyond the Closet"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Reinvention of Obscenity Sex Lies and
Book SynopsisThe concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan de Jean suggests, its modern form, the same that today's politicians decry, was invented in seventeenth century France. This work also casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and all things French.Trade Review"Joan DeJean's new book is a fascinating study that like so much of her work identifies some of the sources of our own modernity in practices and concepts that emerged and took characteristic form in seventeenth-century France. It is masterfully written, beautifully conceived, convincingly argued, tellingly organized, and a delight to read." - Ross Chambers, author of The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Death Penalty Volume I
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life.
£33.00
The University of Chicago Press Playing God
Book SynopsisTechnology evolves at a dazzling speed, particularly in the field of genetic engineering. But the public has not had much to say about the advancements in human genetics. This text asks why and explores the social forces that have led to the thinning out of public debate over genetic engineering.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Playing God Human Genetic Engineering and the
Book SynopsisTechnology evolves at a dazzling speed, particularly in the field of genetic engineering. But the public has not had much to say about the advancements in human genetics. This text asks why and explores the social forces that have led to the thinning out of public debate over genetic engineering.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Tourist Attractions
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£24.70
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Pt. 1: Basic Approaches Pt. 2: Biography, Culture, and Willingness Pt. 3: Movement Culture Pt. 4: Protest and the Broader Culture Pt. 5: A Normative View Appendix on Evidence Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography and
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and
Book SynopsisFerdowsian combines compelling stories of survivors with the latest science on resilience to help us understand the link between violence against people and animals and the biological foundations of recovery, peace, and hope.Trade Review"Human and nonhuman animal rights activist Dr. Hope Ferdowsian has witnessed the horrific effects of brutality directed at both. Phoenix Zones are sanctuaries throughout the earth that extraordinary people have created to allow these dignified human and nonhuman victims to reclaim their lives. An acute observer of all animals, human and nonhuman, Hope's fine prose and deftly drawn portraits allow us to understand how we can not only support these Phoenix Zones, but create a world in which they become obsolete."--Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project "An extraordinary, vital book that demonstrates how trauma runs deep, not recognizing gender, race, nationality, age or species. An absorbing read that combines hard science with adventure, personal observation, and compassion."--Ingrid Newkirk, president and cofounder of PETA "This is a gem of a book. Using real stories about real people, Phoenix Zones delivers a powerful message about how we may confront, understand, and overcome adversity, and make the world a better place for ourselves and the other animals that we share it with. It radiates light and offers hope in these dark and dangerous times."--David Livingstone Smith, author of Less Than Human
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Casuistry and Modern Ethics A Poetics of
Book SynopsisIn this text Richard B. Miller attempts to shed new light on the potential of casuistry case-based reasoning for resolving questions of conscience raised by the practical quandaries of modern life.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Public Enemies Public Heroes Screening the
Book SynopsisA study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Combining film analysis with archival material, the study shows how the industry circumvented censure.
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Book SynopsisAnalyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. This book is suitable for those concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.Trade Review"A first-rate analysis.... This wonderfully nuanced study challenges readers to think simultaneously about the cultural and structural aspects of cross-cultural sexual interactions across international borders, and how those interactions impact local and global constructions of sexuality." - Hector Carrillo, San Francisco State University"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Touching Encounters
Book SynopsisOften depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. This book addresses how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.Trade Review"Strongly grounded in debates within sociology, Kevin Walby's work reaches beyond its disciplinary base by drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as on literary/cultural theory and queer theory. Touching Encounters is very well-researched, well-organized, and well-written - an original and fascinating contribution to the new sociology of sex." (Tim Dean, University at Buffalo, SUNY)"
£25.65
McGill-Queen's University Press Net Privacy How We Can Be Free in an Age of
Book SynopsisThe internet is unprecedented and ubiquitous. Everyone can watch everyone and be watched back, now or later, again and again. What does this mean for privacy?Trade Review"Molitorisz has a mastery of this sprawling and complex topic and has succeeded in navigating the tricky balance between scholarly rigour and accessibility. A well-written, lively, and persuasive book." Colin Bennett, University of Victoria
£98.60
Columbia University Press Sex Among Allies
Book SynopsisThis study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.Trade ReviewIn a carefully researched study of U.S. military prostitution in Korea, Moon validates Cynthia Enloe's claim that the personal is international. These moving stories tell how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as nearly invisible instruments of U.S.-Korean military policies at the highest level. Moon's innovative case study demonstrates how a Cold War alliance was maintained at the price of these women's personal insecurity and challenges us to reconsider the human costs of international security policies. -- J. Ann Tickner
£25.50
Columbia University Press Hollywoods Censor
Book SynopsisFrom 1934 to 1954 Joseph I Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. This title tells the story of Breen's ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign.Trade ReviewDoherty writes with such wit and verve, bringing the past to life... a very entertaining read. Publishers Weekly Compelling, colorful, insightful, and nearly encyclopedic in detail, this book seems destined to become the definitive scholarly biography of Breen. Highly recommended. Library Journal [An] entertaining and rigorous biography of Breen. -- Ada Calhoun New York Times Book Review A fascinating read for anyone interested in American film history. -- Carol O'Sullivan Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [An] authoritative, entertaining, unexpectedly unnerving biography. -- Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times [A] brilliant and absorbing new book. -- Gerald Peary The Phoenix Hollywood's Censor is a stinging portrait of a cultural strongman who made it his business to baby his fellow citizens. -- Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Written with controlled exuberance, and much wit. -- Scott Eyman Palm Beach Post A pleasure to read. -- Rob Hardy Commercial Dispatch An exemplary biography... Highly recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsOpening Credits Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 1. The Victorian Irishman 2. Bluenoses Against the Screen 3. Hollywood Shot to Pieces 4. The Breen Office 5. Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema 6. Confessional 7. Intermission at RKO 8. At War with the Breen Office 9. In His Sacerdotalism 10. "Our Semitic Brethren" 11. Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies 12. Invasion of the Art Films 13. Amending the Ten Commandments 14. Not the Breen Office 15. Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory Appendix: The Production Code Notes Film Index Index
£70.40
Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
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Columbia University Press Genetic Justice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Genetic Justice, the authors provide a thorough discussion of the concerns they believe the DNA revolution and the use of DNA databases in law enforcement pose. While I do not agree with all of their policy conclusions, I commend the authors for their bold and uncompromising positions. Providing discussion of these sensitive criminal justice matters is critical for generating the best tools to serve society while maintaining those precious rights that we enjoy. I recommend the book to all who seek a better understanding of the impact of the genomic age on the criminal justice process. -- Bruce Budowle, executive director, Institute of Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Essential reading for anyone concerned with balancing public safety and personal freedom. The proliferation of DNA databases is not simply 'all good' or 'all bad.' Genetic Justice admirably deconstructs opposing arguments and then erects an inspiring yet realistic vision of justice. -- Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, codirectors of the Innocence Project Genetic Justice provides a lucid assessment of forensic DNA data banking that counters our CSI-infatuated culture in which DNA testing is assumed to be infallible. The authors reveal the serious threats that misuses of modern genetic technology and DNA databases can pose to cherished constitutional rights. This book is essential reading for all who care about pursuing justice while ensuring fairness to our diverse citizenry and the protection of our individual right to privacy. -- Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and former president, American Civil Liberties Union Genetic Justice illuminates every important controversy in the way DNA has entered the criminal justice system: from arguments about a universal DNA databank to the efficacy of DNA dragnets, from whether the state has the right to search your 'abandoned DNA' to the pros and cons of familial searching. Moreover, it accomplishes this in an engaging style that requires no technical background. A vital reference work for the next decade. -- Troy Duster, New York University Sheldon Krimsky is one of the most intelligent and creative multidisciplinary scholars working in bioethics, genetics and society, science studies, and biotechnology. He always knows how to pick topics that are socially significant and require careful public attention. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Firmly grounded in science, this inquiry proves that while DNA can be dramatic in its disclosures, it is not to be used lightly, as is so often depicted in crime stories. Booklist A thoughtful and informative read -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review For anyone concerned about DNA technology, evolving concepts of justice, or the erosion of the basic freedoms of our democracy, Genetic Justice is a book not to miss. -- Doug Pet Biopolitical Times The book offers a lucid and accurate presentation of DNA forensic technology that will be useful to any nonspecialist. -- Michael A. Goldman Science Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. -- Simon A. Cole American Scientist Engaging and informative. -- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education Thoroughly researched and well referenced, Genetic Justice distinguishes itself as an interesting and informative book on the history of the development of DNA testing, forensic DNA databanks, and the justice system's evolving approaches... -- Ananda M. Chakrabarty BioScience required reading -- Richard Lewontin New York Review of Books An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the clarity with which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... -- Lundy Braun PsycCRITIQUES I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and concerned about the balance between the protection of rights such as privacy and autonomy and public safely and criminal justice imperatives... -- Wilhelm Peekhaus Science and SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: DNA in Law Enforcement 1. Forensic DNA Analysis 2. The Network of U.S. DNA Data Banks 3. Community DNA Dragnets 4. Familial DNA Searches 5. Forensic DNA Phenotyping 6. Surreptitious Biological Sampling 7. Exonerations 8. The Illusory Appeal of a Universal DNA Data Bank Part II: Comparative Systems 9. The United Kingdom 10. Japan's Forensic DNA Data Bank 11. Australia 12: Germany 13. Italy Part III: Critical Perspectives 14. Privacy and Genetic Surveillance 15. Racial Disparities in DNA Data Banking 16. Fallibility in DNA Identification 17. The Efficacy of DNA Data Banks 18. Toward a Vision of Justice Appendix: A Comparison of DNA Databases in Six Nations Notes Selected Readings Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press Perversion for Profit
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Strub] conveys how pornography comes into contact with greater narratives of obscenity, permissiveness, sexuality, and gender. It is apparent from [his] accounts how pornography is a vital and rich subject for analyzing a range of social pressures and competing narratives. H-Histsex Perversion for Profit situates the pornography battles within the tricky ideological crosscurrents of the culture war. -- David T. Courtwright Journal of American History Strub does a masterful job of making the complicated postwar legal history of the shifting definitions of obscenity clear in a nuanced analysis that is always attentive to issues of gender and sexuality. -- David K. Johnson American Historical Review Well-researched and wide-ranging... [Perversion for Profit] deserves accolades for charting conservatism's ongoing affair with pornography and convincingly demonstrating the centrality of sexuality to an understanding of modern political history. -- Gillian Frank Journal of the History of SexualityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rediscovery of Pornography: Emergence of a Cold War Moral Panic 2. Ambivalent Liberals: Theorizing Obscenity Under Consensus Constraints 3. Arousing the Public: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Emergence of the: Modern Antiporn Movement 4. Damning the Floodtide of Filth: The Rise of the New Right and the Political Capital of Moralism 5. The Permissive Society: Porno Chic and the Cultural Aftermath of the Sexual Revolution 6. Resurrecting Moralism: The Christian Right and the Porn Debate 7. Pornography Is the Practice, Where Is the Theory? Second-Wave Feminist Encounters with Porn 8. Vanilla Hegemony: Policing Sexual Boundaries in the Permanent Culture-War Economy Notes Acknowledgments Index
£70.40
Columbia University Press Nomadic Theory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFans of Rosi Braidotti's unique approach to feminism and philosophy will appreciate having her recent essays collected in one volume. Her call to 'construct social horizons of hope and sustainable futures' offers a reassuring 'politics of affirmation' for these troubled and troubling times. -- Joan W. Scott, professor of social science, Institute for Advanced Study For all of those seeking a positive turn building on the powerful critique that so influenced the academy in recent decades, Rosi Braidotti offers an understanding of philosophy-of thinking-that she views as crucial to creative production. At a time when intellectual discourse is becoming increasingly disciplinary, Braidotti opens a path for broad discussion and debate. -- Elizabeth Weed, director, Pembroke Center, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 1. Transposing Differences 2. Meta(l)morphoses: Women, Aliens, and Machines 3. Animals and Other Anomalies 4. The Cosmic Buzz of Insects 2 5. Matter-Realist Feminism 6. Intensive Genre and the Demise of Gender 7. Postsecular Paradoxes 3 8. Complexity Against Methodological Nationalism 9. Nomadic European Citizenship 4 10. Powers of Affirmation 11. Sustainable Ethics and the Body in Pain 12. Forensic Futures 5 13. A Secular Prayer Notes Bibliography Index
£73.60
Columbia University Press Nomadic Theory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFans of Rosi Braidotti's unique approach to feminism and philosophy will appreciate having her recent essays collected in one volume. Her call to 'construct social horizons of hope and sustainable futures' offers a reassuring 'politics of affirmation' for these troubled and troubling times. -- Joan W. Scott, professor of social science, Institute for Advanced Study For all of those seeking a positive turn building on the powerful critique that so influenced the academy in recent decades, Rosi Braidotti offers an understanding of philosophy-of thinking-that she views as crucial to creative production. At a time when intellectual discourse is becoming increasingly disciplinary, Braidotti opens a path for broad discussion and debate. -- Elizabeth Weed, director, Pembroke Center, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 1. Transposing Differences 2. Meta(l)morphoses: Women, Aliens, and Machines 3. Animals and Other Anomalies 4. The Cosmic Buzz of Insects 2 5. Matter-Realist Feminism 6. Intensive Genre and the Demise of Gender 7. Postsecular Paradoxes 3 8. Complexity Against Methodological Nationalism 9. Nomadic European Citizenship 4 10. Powers of Affirmation 11. Sustainable Ethics and the Body in Pain 12. Forensic Futures 5 13. A Secular Prayer Notes Bibliography Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press Animals and the Human Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe contributors succeed in making a range of complex issues in contemporary animal studies accessible-and even engrossing-to the ordinary educated reader, and the editors provide a richly intelligent mapping of the field. -- J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Impressive and startling, this anthology shows the radical potential of edited volumes to break ground beyond the scope of monographs. Fascinating new studies in fields as diverse as philosophy, ethics, media studies, wildlife management, and children's literature challenge the 'animal/human binary' of Western thought. This borderline reveals itself to be neither ontologically fixed nor biologically stable. Rather, it is wondrously fluid and contingent, existing both within and without human beings. As Claude Levi-Strauss famously observed in culture and Paul Shepard has memorably mapped in cognition, we continue to 'think' with animals-to imagine ourselves in relation to them, or, as Aaron Gross puts it, 'to self-conceptualize through animals in particular contexts.' The rich array of ideas offered here seems to suggest we can do nothing other than that. Yet at the same time we are moved 'to pause, put to rest, or surrender the categories animal and human.' It is to the editors' infinite credit that this paradox is left unmolested, thus emerging as an oracle. -- Kimberely Patton, Harvard University, coeditor of A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics Evocative and provocative, these essays deeply unsettle the Western tradition's assumption of an abyss between human and non-human animals. Probing contemporary biopolitics in relation to animals, they announce the necessity of nothing less than a mutation in thought. Here, the ethics of difference, vulnerability, and responsibility come face to face with the uncanny proximity and radical distance of animals. As this anthology shows, animals regard us, and we can't evade that call. -- Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara The editors do not simply take stock of the current state of animal studies. Instead, they have gathered together a number of interesting and original researchers who are themselves making novel contributions to the field. This anthology is an important book, both as an introductory text and as a volume that advanced researchers will turn to in hopes of finding inspiration and new ideas in animal studies. -- Matthew Calarco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CSU Fullerton Animals and the Human Imagination soars. Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can't imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies. -- Jonathan Safran Foer What the remarkable and academically diverse collection of essays in Animals and the Human Imagination achieves is to point out how we have made animals vanish in our language and how we might bring them back into our collective vision again... This book will inspire more scholarly work on animals, but it will also supply fuel for activists who hope to treat animals more humanely-not to say humanly-in the world outside the academy. -- Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and author of Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts (University of Chicago Press, 1980) ...a strong addition to psychology, literary, and wildlife collections, enthusiastically recommended and fascinating reading. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan Safran Foer Introduction and Overview: Animal Others and Animal Studies, by Aaron Gross Part 1. Other Animals: Animals Across Cultures 1. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment, by Tim Ingold 2. On Yeti and Being Just: Carving the Borders of Humanity in Early Modern China, by Carla Nappi 3. Pastoral Power in the Postcolony: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India, by Anand Pandian Part 2. Animal Matters: Human/Animal and the Contemporary West 4. Discipline and Distancing: Confined Pigs in the Factory Farm Gulag, by Joel Novak 5. Boys Gone Wild: The Animal and the Abject, by Cynthia Chris 6. Animal Heroes and Transforming Substance: Canine Characters in Contemporary Children's Literature, by Michelle Superle 7. The Making of a Wilderness Icon: Green Fire, Charismatic Species, and the Changing Status of Wolves in the United States, by Gavin van Horn 8. Thinking with Surfaces: Animals and Contemporary Art, by Ron Broglio Part 3. Animal Others: Theorizing Animal/Human 9. Being with Animals: Reconsidering Heidegger's Animal Ontology, by Brett Buchanan 10. Heidegger and the Dog Whisperer: Imagining Interspecies Kindness, by Ashley E. Pryor 11. The Lives of Animals: Wittgenstein, Coetzee, and the Extent of the Sympathetic Imagination, by Undine Sellbach 12. Animal, All Too Animal: Blood Music and an Ethic of Vulnerability, by Myra J. Hird Epilogue: Making Animals Vanish, by Wendy Doniger
£80.00
Columbia University Press Animals and the Human Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe contributors succeed in making a range of complex issues in contemporary animal studies accessible-and even engrossing-to the ordinary educated reader, and the editors provide a richly intelligent mapping of the field. -- J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Impressive and startling, this anthology shows the radical potential of edited volumes to break ground beyond the scope of monographs. Fascinating new studies in fields as diverse as philosophy, ethics, media studies, wildlife management, and children's literature challenge the 'animal/human binary' of Western thought. This borderline reveals itself to be neither ontologically fixed nor biologically stable. Rather, it is wondrously fluid and contingent, existing both within and without human beings. As Claude Levi-Strauss famously observed in culture and Paul Shepard has memorably mapped in cognition, we continue to 'think' with animals-to imagine ourselves in relation to them, or, as Aaron Gross puts it, 'to self-conceptualize through animals in particular contexts.' The rich array of ideas offered here seems to suggest we can do nothing other than that. Yet at the same time we are moved 'to pause, put to rest, or surrender the categories animal and human.' It is to the editors' infinite credit that this paradox is left unmolested, thus emerging as an oracle. -- Kimberely Patton, Harvard University, coeditor of A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics Evocative and provocative, these essays deeply unsettle the Western tradition's assumption of an abyss between human and non-human animals. Probing contemporary biopolitics in relation to animals, they announce the necessity of nothing less than a mutation in thought. Here, the ethics of difference, vulnerability, and responsibility come face to face with the uncanny proximity and radical distance of animals. As this anthology shows, animals regard us, and we can't evade that call. -- Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara The editors do not simply take stock of the current state of animal studies. Instead, they have gathered together a number of interesting and original researchers who are themselves making novel contributions to the field. This anthology is an important book, both as an introductory text and as a volume that advanced researchers will turn to in hopes of finding inspiration and new ideas in animal studies. -- Matthew Calarco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CSU Fullerton Animals and the Human Imagination soars. Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can't imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies. -- Jonathan Safran Foer What the remarkable and academically diverse collection of essays in Animals and the Human Imagination achieves is to point out how we have made animals vanish in our language and how we might bring them back into our collective vision again... This book will inspire more scholarly work on animals, but it will also supply fuel for activists who hope to treat animals more humanely-not to say humanly-in the world outside the academy. -- Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and author of Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts (University of Chicago Press, 1980) ...a strong addition to psychology, literary, and wildlife collections, enthusiastically recommended and fascinating reading. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan Safran Foer Introduction and Overview: Animal Others and Animal Studies, by Aaron Gross Part 1. Other Animals: Animals Across Cultures 1. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment, by Tim Ingold 2. On Yeti and Being Just: Carving the Borders of Humanity in Early Modern China, by Carla Nappi 3. Pastoral Power in the Postcolony: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India, by Anand Pandian Part 2. Animal Matters: Human/Animal and the Contemporary West 4. Discipline and Distancing: Confined Pigs in the Factory Farm Gulag, by Joel Novak 5. Boys Gone Wild: The Animal and the Abject, by Cynthia Chris 6. Animal Heroes and Transforming Substance: Canine Characters in Contemporary Children's Literature, by Michelle Superle 7. The Making of a Wilderness Icon: Green Fire, Charismatic Species, and the Changing Status of Wolves in the United States, by Gavin van Horn 8. Thinking with Surfaces: Animals and Contemporary Art, by Ron Broglio Part 3. Animal Others: Theorizing Animal/Human 9. Being with Animals: Reconsidering Heidegger's Animal Ontology, by Brett Buchanan 10. Heidegger and the Dog Whisperer: Imagining Interspecies Kindness, by Ashley E. Pryor 11. The Lives of Animals: Wittgenstein, Coetzee, and the Extent of the Sympathetic Imagination, by Undine Sellbach 12. Animal, All Too Animal: Blood Music and an Ethic of Vulnerability, by Myra J. Hird Epilogue: Making Animals Vanish, by Wendy Doniger
£25.50
Columbia University Press Second Read
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLet us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style. -- Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again. -- David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News Daily News Second Read carries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between. -- Steve Weinberg WriterTable of ContentsIntroduction Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes of America Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal History Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything Contributors
£21.25
Columbia University Press Second Read
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLet us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style. -- Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again. -- David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News Daily News Second Read carries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between. -- Steve Weinberg WriterTable of ContentsIntroduction Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes of America Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal History Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything Contributors
£64.00
Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
£25.50
Columbia University Press Stem Cell Dialogues A Philosophical and
Book SynopsisA dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.Trade ReviewKrimsky's use of the dialogue method identifies, sharpens, and advances key points of debate and the breadth of issues being addressed. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College Krimsky is not afraid to introduce the latest, often hyped-up findings and unresolved controversies in stem cell research and to offer a well-balanced discussion of their implications for potential therapies. -- Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University This book presents a wonderful new approach to learning about stem cells and thinking about their broader impact at the interface of society, policy, religion, and ethics. Stem Cell Dialogues is highly novel, very engaging, and will open readers to new ways of thinking about the public stem cell debate. It touches on many controversial areas related to stem cells in a well-informed and engaging style. Sheldon Krimsky is able to break down the pros and cons of each argument in a way that makes the stem cell conversation approachable and empowers the reader to draw their own conclusions. -- Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University Krimsky's coverage of topics is impressive, much more extensive than other available teaching tools. His approach is remarkably balanced, accessible, and interesting. The dialogues are open-ended, leaving the instructor the freedom to develop different ideas in different directions in the classroom. -- Julia Pedroni, Williams College Well-researched and enlightening... Readers will come away with an understanding of the pertinent scientific, political, and moral dilemmas. Library Journal An important book for anyone interested in the issues surrounding stem cell research. Choice The inquisitive form certainly fits the subject, which is multifaceted and evolving. Health Affairs Evenhanded, eminently readable, up to date, educational, scientifically precise, powerfully researched, and very entertaining, Krimsky's slim volume is one that no scientist, policy-maker, ethicist, or intelligent reader should miss... Although the stem-cell debate is complex and heated, Krimsky has done more than anyone else to make it tractable, clear, and interesting. Hastings Center Report As a lecturer in bioethics I regard this book as an immensely useful resource for my MA students...I welcome the contribution Stem Cell Dialogues makes in helping public understanding of the science, ethics and policy concerns of what continues to be a developing and important aspect of regenerative medicine. New BioethicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine Dialogue 1. Hope Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells? Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer Dialogue 12. Reprogramming Cells Dialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe) Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me? Dialogue 23. Embryos Without Ovaries Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment Epilogue Notes Glossary Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press Stem Cell Dialogues A Philosophical and
Book SynopsisA dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.Trade ReviewKrimsky's use of the dialogue method identifies, sharpens, and advances key points of debate and the breadth of issues being addressed. -- Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College Krimsky is not afraid to introduce the latest, often hyped-up findings and unresolved controversies in stem cell research and to offer a well-balanced discussion of their implications for potential therapies. -- Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University This book presents a wonderful new approach to learning about stem cells and thinking about their broader impact at the interface of society, policy, religion, and ethics. Stem Cell Dialogues is highly novel, very engaging, and will open readers to new ways of thinking about the public stem cell debate. It touches on many controversial areas related to stem cells in a well-informed and engaging style. Sheldon Krimsky is able to break down the pros and cons of each argument in a way that makes the stem cell conversation approachable and empowers the reader to draw their own conclusions. -- Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University Krimsky's coverage of topics is impressive, much more extensive than other available teaching tools. His approach is remarkably balanced, accessible, and interesting. The dialogues are open-ended, leaving the instructor the freedom to develop different ideas in different directions in the classroom. -- Julia Pedroni, Williams College Well-researched and enlightening... Readers will come away with an understanding of the pertinent scientific, political, and moral dilemmas. Library Journal An important book for anyone interested in the issues surrounding stem cell research. Choice The inquisitive form certainly fits the subject, which is multifaceted and evolving. Health Affairs Evenhanded, eminently readable, up to date, educational, scientifically precise, powerfully researched, and very entertaining, Krimsky's slim volume is one that no scientist, policy-maker, ethicist, or intelligent reader should miss... Although the stem-cell debate is complex and heated, Krimsky has done more than anyone else to make it tractable, clear, and interesting. Hastings Center ReportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine Dialogue 1. Hope Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells? Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer Dialogue 12. Reprogramming Cells Dialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe) Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me? Dialogue 23. Embryos Without Ovaries Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment Epilogue Notes Glossary Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Sex Trafficking in the United States Theory
Book SynopsisAndrea J. Nichols explores the dynamics of sex trafficking from the angles of survivors, perpetrators, facilitators, and the social service and criminal justice professionals who work in the field. Sex Trafficking in the United States is essential for understanding an exploitative industry and for curbing its spread among at-risk populations.Trade ReviewNichols provides a comprehensive and clear overview of sex trafficking in the United States, skillfully exploring the intersecting and complex challenges of theory and practice. This book is an outstanding resource for teaching. -- Lauren Martin, University of Minnesota Finally, there is an ideal option for educators seeking a comprehensive text on this complex topic. Andrea J. Nichols delivers a well-organized book that analyzes the theories explaining sex trafficking today, carefully considers the impassioned discourse surrounding sex trafficking policy, and draws on solid empirical research from beginning to end. -- Joan A. Reid, University of South Florida St. Petersburg Nichols exposes the reality of sex trafficking and offers a comprehensive view of challenging perspectives, engaging the audience to take action toward prevention. -- Juliana Huard, University of Massachusetts A well-organized introduction to the landscape of sex trafficking in the United States that addresses the complexity of the issue, the competing narratives, and some of the challenges faced by survivors. -- Natalie Jesionka, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Contemporary Debates of Theory, Research, and Policy 1. Sex Trafficking: An Introduction Defining Sex Trafficking: Key Legislation Defining Sex Trafficking: Common Misconceptions Sex Trafficking Prevalence Supply, Demand, and Profitability Chapter Summary Chapter Overviews Use of Terms Discussion Questions 2. Theoretical Perspectives and the Politics of Sex Trafficking Feminist Perspectives Political Perspectives Overlapping Feminist and Political Perspectives Sociological Perspectives Criminological Perspectives Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 3. Pornography The Politics of Pornography Key Areas of Pornography Debates and Sex Trafficking Child Pornography as Sex Trafficking Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 4. Prostitution Feminist Perspectives of Prostitution Models of Prostitution Policy How Do These Debates Relate to Sex Trafficking in the United States? Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Part II. The Dynamics of Sex Trafficking in the United States 5. Survivors Risk Factors: Identity-Based Oppression Risk Factors: Weak Social Institutions Recruitment Barriers to Leaving Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 6. Traffickers Types of Traffickers Who Are They, and Why Do They Do It? The Glorification of Pimping in Pop Culture Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 7. Sex Trafficking Operations Venues for Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Technology as a Trafficking Tool Interstate Circuits International Trafficking Movement Meeting the Demand Structure of Trafficking Operations Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 8. Buyers Research on Buyers Buyers of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Are Indistinct Demographics of Buyers Continuum of Buyer Motivations Addressing Demand: Structural Responses Targeting Buyers Buyers Avoiding Detection Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Part III. Responses to Sex Trafficking 9. Criminal Justice System Responses U.S. Federal Law: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act State Law Identification Criminalizing Trafficking Survivors Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 10. Social Services and Health Care Responses Identification Health Care Settings Social Service Settings Barriers to Accessing Services Aftercare Promising Practices Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 11. The Anti-Sex Trafficking Movement in the United States "The Roots" of Grassroots Antitrafficking Organizations The Hotel Industry The Transportation Industry Political Activism Media Support International Organizations Operating in the United States Chapter Summary Discussion Questions 12. New Directions Criminal Justice System Recommendations Education and Awareness Recommendations for Social Service Provision Outreach and Prevention Societal Issues What Can We Do? What's Your Green Dot? Discussion Questions Notes References Index
£80.00
Columbia University Press Experiments in Democracy Human Embryo Research
Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this path-breaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of US debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights, and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls' seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School In this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego A well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Experiment 1. New Beginnings 2. Producing Life 3. Representing Reason 4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus 5. Confusing Deliberation 6. In the Laboratories of Democracy 7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress 8. The Legacy of Experiment Notes Index
£49.60
Columbia University Press Experiments in Democracy
Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this pathbreaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of U.S. debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls’s seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San DiegoA well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityScience historian Benjamin Hurlbut offers a wide-angle history of US attempts at democratic deliberation on the ethics of human-embryo research. Painstakingly researched and spanning more than four decades — from the advent of in vitro fertilization in the 1970s to contemporary developments such as germline editing — the book draws attention to an intricate interplay between science and democracy. * Nature *Hurlbut provides an important new line of inquiry for histories of bioethics in the United States and elsewhere. * Isis *This is a great book on issues of bioethics, and the roles played by, and the inter-relationships among people of authority in government, in law, and in science * BizIndia *A fascinating and necessary review of the multifaceted issues cultivated by these revolutionary breakthroughs. Essential. All readers. * Choice *An important contribution to the science technology studies (STS) literature on the mechanisms of governance of emerging biotechnologies. * Bioethical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Politics of Experiment1. New Beginnings2. Producing Life3. Representing Reason4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus5. Confusing Deliberation6. In the Laboratories of Democracy7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress8. The Legacy of ExperimentNotesIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd Eating Animals
Book SynopsisJonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
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University of Illinois Press Sex Tourism in Bahia Ambiguous Entanglements
Book SynopsisThis pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.Trade ReviewNational Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois Press First Book Prize, 2011. "Williams successfully convinces her reader that the eroticization of Afro-Brazilians' bodies and their resulting role as icons of sex tourism are historically rooted in the intersection of race and sexuality in Brazil."--Current Anthropology "As Erica Williams shows well in Sex Tourism, Brazil is an important setting for research on the subject as it has long been a destination for racialised and sexualised tourism. A persuasive and important contribution to knowledge in the overlapping fields of gender studies, tourism studies and cultural anthropology."--Journal of Latin American Studies "In the first ethnographic study of sex workers in Bahia, Brazil, Dr. Erica Lorraine Williams deftly situates sex tourism within the local, national and international spheres of economics, history, race and sexuality. Writing with an ability to speak to a range of readers from undergraduates to experts in the field, Williams provides an intriguing, complicated, and specific account of how sex workers, both male and female, negotiate their jobs, identities, sexualities and racial identities/representations in the sex tourism capital of the world. . . . By opening up her research to a variety of relationships, Williams allowed Bahia to teach her rather than the other way around, a much-needed lesson for all students and scholars."--Women's Studies International Forum"This ambitious, fascinating ethnography clearly articulates how sex tourism in Bahia, Brazil, depends on the sexualized and racialized bodies of people of African descent. Erica Lorraine Williams makes a significant contribution by examining how sex tourism is both a racial and sexual project and how race is central to the commodification of culture."--Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic"Not just a book for academics in the field of tourism or racial studies. Williams' engaging writing style also makes this book ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate students with a sociological or anthropological interest in tourism, race or migration. Overall, this is a must read for academics and students interested in areas of race and/or tourism and I would certainly have no hesitation in recommending it."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"This well-written ethnography provides an excellent example of the ambiguities of transnational sex and the ways that individuals negotiate global processes such as tourism on a day-to-day basis. Of interest to anthropologists, sociologist, and geographers of gender, sexuality, race, and transnationality, it would also be a most welcome addition to upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on tourism and Latin American and Caribbean studies."--Contemporary Sociology"Sex Tourism in Bahia is a very successful ethnographic text that raises interesting questions and issues related to how we define 'sex tourism' and 'sex work,' the ways government and institutional programs are complicit in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes of hypersexuality and vulnerability, and the links between transnational desires and the proliferation of sexual and affective liaisons."--H-Net Reviews
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University of Illinois Press Sex Workers Psychics and Numbers Runners
Book SynopsisDuring the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City''s expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women s creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experTrade ReviewDarlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2017 Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor and Working-Class History, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2017 "This outstanding first monograph by historian Harris continues Deborah Gray White's 1987 call for historians to reclaim the voices of African American women lost in the margins... Highly Recommended."--Choice"Harris shows how these women skillfully created unique spaces to participate in the city’s informal economy. Her close attention to these women’s lives and labors during the twentieth century shed light on the perseverance, ingenuity and creativity of Black women." --Keisha N. Blain, Ms."This text goes a long way to articulating the major role that black women informal workers played in contributing to the wider American economy in the early twentieth century, and further challenging taken for granted conceptions of black womanhood, and gender role expectations."--Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Harris's beautifully written book, the stories of black women in New York who have been absent in historical narratives vividly come to life. Harris takes us on a fascinating journey of New York City unlike any we have ever seen."--Public Books"An impressive and significant contribution, not just to the historiography, but also to the larger conversation of the over-policing of black Americans' labor and leisure."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A masterful compilation of criminal justice system records, archival newspaper accounts, and period-specific literature. . . . The book is a comprehensive and highly impressive analytical account of a diverse set of black women, and should be regarded as one of the foremost additions to the literature in its field."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Harris has written an important work--perhaps the most important on African American women in the underground economy. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners may well be a classic. It should be required reading for all interested in African American, criminal, social, urban, and women's histories, and other related disciplines."--Journal of American History"Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners presents a clear-eyed view of the opportunities and dangers that characterized black women's presence in New York City's underbelly." --Palimpsest "A stunning achievement that makes an incisive contribution to African American studies and history, black women's history, and gender and sexuality studies as well as works that explore crime and vice. Harris's powerful book sheds a light on groups rarely studied and it will complicate readers's understanding of terms such as illegal, extralegal, and informal."--Kali Gross, author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 "This book is a well-researched and valuable perspective on black women's labor in New York City's early-twentieth-century informal economy. Such a groundbreaking study provides new insights about the existence, relevance, and diversity within the informal economy through a racialized and gendered lens. An impressive work of original research and analysis in African-American, urban, labor, and gender history."--Cheryl D. Hicks, author of Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
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University of Illinois Press The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 4
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Margaret Sanger set out to remake the world and did just that. This fascinating collection lets us see in vivid detail how Sanger expanded the birth control movement worldwide and fought to make contraception a weapon in the battle for women's equality. In these pages we see Sanger in all her complexity, and that complexity helps us understand the magnitude of her achievements. This is an invaluable addition to the historical record."--Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill
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University of Illinois Press Women against Abortion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent."--The New York Review of Books "[A] compelling and original study." --Legal History "Haugeberg's story is an important one. Her book tells the gut-wrenching story of deteriorating abortion access from a new, absolutely essential, perspective." --Reviews in American History "Women Against Abortion is a much-needed corrective that will surely inspire important additional work on women antiabortion activists."--Journal of Southern History"Haugeberg should be commended for the balanced, respectful tone she assumes in this study of one of the most controversial issues in American history." --American Historical Review "[A] nuanced, sophisticated, balanced account. . . . Recommended."--Choice
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