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How elements of masculinity manifest themselves in all aspects of American political life While hardly a new phenomenon, masculinity-which includes elements of toughness, independence, and leadership, among others-roared onto the national political stage in America with the 2016 candidacy, election, and presidency of Donald Trump. Research into ......
A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been ......
A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been ......
Charts the myth of the "good guy with a gun," connecting America's frontier beginnings with visions of the end of the world In the midst of widespread mass shootings in America, a common motif stands out: the perpetrators of these attacks often view themselves as vigilante saviors, whose job it is to regulate society in a way that exterminates ......
Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America
Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era-the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for ......
Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America
Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era-the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for ......
A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine A remarkable autobiography-written entirely in free verse-of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, ......
A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order--which values our collective future over immediate economic gains The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature--for joy, for comfort, and for sheer survival. In his prescient new ......
A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order--which values our collective future over immediate economic gains The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature--for joy, for comfort, and for sheer survival. In his prescient new ......