Until a decade ago, the conquest of tuberculosis seemed one of the great triumphs of modern medic...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of way...

This important new work is a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of SÃo Paulo in the n...

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focu...

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland somet...

Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine, detail...

'Flatlining on the Field of Dreams takes a apart some of the most commercially successful films o...

This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and self-determination. It offers an ...

War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers’ antiwar movement, showing why it was born...

The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the US, Labor of Love examines the confl...

When geographic ideas change the world in our heads, the impact can be read on the ground and in ...

Examines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable and others to be unacceptable a...

A major theme of this book is the emergence of the state government as a significant factor in Ne...

Presents a sociological redefinition and reexamination of religion. For religion to endure in the...

The Marriage of Maria Braun is the fourth volume in the Rutgers Films in Print Series and the mos...

Religion-both personal faith and institutional tradition-plays a central role in the lives of the...

This tale of rape and murder is first seen through the eyes of the woodcutter and the priest, bot...

Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular...

Until relatively recently, little had been written about gender issues in international relations...

Provides insights into the judicial process of scientific inquiry by examining major decisions of...

More than just a study of legal history, Shifting the Blame looks at the 'abuse excuse' defense a...

'Exposing the ideological bases of the medical scientific information (and disinformation) we rec...

Accounts of Jewish immigrants usually describe the role of education in helping youngsters earn a...

Allen Davis looks at the influence of settlement-house workers on the reform movement of the prog...

This is the complete account of New Jersey's important role in the American Revolutionary War, as...

Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, “New Queer Cinema” has turned t...

'None of this is orderly, store-bought legend or folklore. This is the way people talk, sought ou...

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human ...

In this work the author tells the story of how and why women enter paid childcare work through th...

In this sequel to Forgotten Towns Of Southern New Jersey, the author visits to the state's early ...

English Society brings together the results of recent historiography, together with much original...

The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including m...

For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its eco...

Traditions in World Cinema brings together a colorful and wide ranging collection of world cinema...

Until twenty years ago we had no idea which of our genes came from our father and which came from...

Before 1850, the field of medicine was closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist mal...

It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand-depending on the number of people...

First published in 1954, The Orchid House, Phyllis Shand Allfrey's only published novel, is a cla...

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Poli...

'Fisher thoroughly covers the case, from the night the baby was taken from his home in Hopewell, ...

There are few issues more divisive than what has become known as 'the right to die'. One camp uph...

Winner of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association  The...

This is a new translation, with introduction, commentary, and an explanatory glossary.

Part ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the wor...

Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Why do we line up to buy greasy fast food that i...

What can revolutions do for women? For decades, feminists and revolutionaries have posed this que...

With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jersey Shore--from New York Harbor to Delawar...

For many years, America cherished its image as a Golden Door for the world’s oppressed. But durin...