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How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by...

Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. Three hundred years of novels, plays, painting, and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero par excellence. How did the pirate-a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain-become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar to us through a variety of pop culture...

Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Anthropology, presented by the Association of American Publishers A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Some “boys” will only wear dresses; some “girls” refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, some at two and three years old,...

Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis? In Doing Time , Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to cultural and political differences within the same time as well as the leaky boundaries...

Describes the daily experiences of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York City.

In<I> Essential Dads</I>, sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported &ldquo;responsible&rdquo; fatherhood program. Dads&rsquo; experiences serve as a unique window into long-standing controversies about the importance of fathering, its connection to inequality, and the state&rsquo;s role in shaping men&rsquo;s parenting. With a compassionate and...

Offers operating executives and small business owners’ fresh insight into the grooming of their frontline managers who carry out critical initiatives Presents a new paradigm to unlock the massive potential of Operations Executives and their team members who have courage to embrace them Empowers operators to capture value and corrects the one-size-fits-all approach created by the project management industry in reaction to massive project failure In their characteristic straight-talking style,...

Argentine Women and Technology: An Analysis of Gendered Genre Evolution analyzes the link between gender and technology to explain the mechanisms underlying the association of specific genders with literary genres. Kelly Suero argues that as the democratic effect of the internet affords one the potential to obtain a space of adequate representation, Latin American women&mdash;in particular, Argentine women&mdash;have come to use technology as a medium through which to obtain a voice...

Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.The Left, Right, and Center all hate them: powerful special interests that use government power for their own private benefit. In an era when the Left hates &#147;fat cats&#8221; and the Right despises &#147;crony...

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going &#147;on strike.&#8221; They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this &#147;man-child&#8221; phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a...

&lt;P&gt;The Connecticut River Valley was an important center for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by young women in private academies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This book identifies the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools throughout the valley, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Vermont and New Hampshire. Needlework was a means of instilling the values of citizenship, faith, knowledge, and patriotism into...