Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Manhood Impossible
Men's Struggles to Control and Transform their Bodies and Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys’ and men’s bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men’s bodies and work. However, no man can...
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national...
This Is Our Land
Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing...
Blaming the Poor
The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor—sparked a firestorm when he released his report “The Negro Family,” which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the...
Smoking Privileges
Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical...
by Sara Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in...
by Charles Keeton
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
What’s in the dark? Countless generations have gazed up at the night sky and asked this question—the same question that cosmologists ask themselves as they study the universe.
The answer turns out to be surprising and rich. The space between stars is filled with an exotic substance...
Privacy and the Past
Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challenges—even in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C....
City Kids
Transforming Racial Baggage
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cosmopolitanism—the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity—is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.
City...
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives....
Vanishing Bees
Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths—some of which have come to be called...
Finding the Right Psychiatrist
A Guide for Discerning Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Choosing a psychiatrist is complicated. If a person doesn’t know what to look for and the questions to ask, finding the right psychiatrist can be daunting.The goal is to find one who, while remaining a competent physician, is as comfortable and capable working with problems of the mind as he or...
The Methamphetamine Industry in America
Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Galax, a small Virginia town at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was one of the first places that Henry H. Brownstein, Timothy M. Mulcahy, and Johannes Huessy visited for their study of the social dynamics of methamphetamine markets—and what they found changed everything. They had begun by...
Life on the Malecón
Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life on the Malecón is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-governmental organizations that provide social services for them. Writing from the perspective of an anthropologist working as a street educator with a...