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Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law
How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified Regulating the Body examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions. Bringing ......
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed-marking the Civil War as the first ......
Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership
A new perspective on women's Black Power leadership legacies Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s-that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women's strategizing, management, and sustained work were integral to movement organizations' ......
How race and capitalism shape education School choice programs-such as vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credit scholarships-are surrounded by controversy, raising questions about their impact on student diversity and inequality. In this book, Ryane McAuliffe Straus takes up a core part of this divisive debate, exploring why charter ......
How race and capitalism shape education School choice programs-such as vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credit scholarships-are surrounded by controversy, raising questions about their impact on student diversity and inequality. In this book, Ryane McAuliffe Straus takes up a core part of this divisive debate, exploring why charter ......
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the ......
The Hidden Politics and Ideology of the Natural and Social Sciences
Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called "Age of Reason" to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social, and historical origins of modern science, and illuminates the a priori and innate features which furnish the justifications for the technical domination ......
The Hidden Politics and Ideology of the Natural and Social Sciences
Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called "Age of Reason" to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social, and historical origins of modern science, and illuminates the a priori and innate features which furnish the justifications for the technical domination ......
American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism
The rise of moderate Orthodox Judaism in Israel and the key role of Americans in its emergence The conservative ultra-Orthodox and redemptive "Kook" camps hold sway over religious matters in Israel. Yet from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, a small cadre of American immigrants arrived in Israel and established or led a range of educational ......
